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Here's a card that was only vaguely familiar to me and weird enough to look into but then I couldn't find a listing for it in the Non-Sport Almanac nor Allender's site nor even in any of the old price guides from the mid-late 90's. It's near-identical to the metal card that was packed with the "Harley Davidson Collection" (Skybox, 1994) deluxe factory set (which also included the 90-card base set, 4 foil-embossed cards, and 4 original iron-on patches) but that factory set card is silver-colored (not made of silver) while this one is gold-colored and was only sent to dealers who ordered a large quantity of those factory sets.

It's a cool-looking card (one of the early motorcycle models) and there might be as few as 100 - likely no more than 200. It's hard to say. No one seems to know how many were made but they rarely appear for sale. One longtime dealer told me the only ones he's seen for sale over the past several years are the few he has offered.

While looking for information on this card, I noticed that the NSU price guide from the June-July issue and Allender's site list 2 chromium promos for this set but I don't think I've ever seen those. PCE2008 lists only a serial-numbered 4-card sheet as a promo for the set. Does anyone have those 2 chromium promos?


 
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PCE2008 documented four 6-card promo sheets for the Sandman set (Skybox, 1994). I've seen another one online which contains base cards 25, 33, 41, 26, 34, and 42.

 
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PCE2008 has a listing for Kayo Boxing promos - some of the ones that were specially-printed and released at the 1991 National. The Trading Card Database lists all of them.

https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist...991-Kayo-TheNational

There were additional promos I listed here back in 2015 (scroll down to the K's):

http://nonsportupdate.infopop....453/m/5707083576/p/2

In those notes I mentioned that there was a rumor that there were also Mike Tyson and Thomas Hearns cards printed for the National but those two were not inserted with the others in special promo packs (packs not marked as promotional but the boxes in which they were packed were marked as promotional). No one seems to know why they were pulled. Back in 2015 (and since) I looked for images of the cards but didn't find any. Jump to a couple of days ago... I was checking to see what Kayo promos were available and spotted not just one listing each for the cards but several in the past month and a half including some sales.

Most of the cards that have been available have been graded. Sellers have been asking hundreds of dollars (and a couple of graded ones have sold in the $500-900 range) but one ungraded Tyson card went for something under $295 (around $250?) on June 16. Two graded Hearns cards sold in the $145-200 range - even one graded as Excellent.



 
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Among the promos listed for DC Milestone: the Dakota Universe (Skybox, 1993), PCE2008 lists an M2 foil embossed chase card that has a special sticker on the back that says "THANK YOU FOR MAKING MILESTONE A GREAT SUCCESS!" It was apparently sent to dealers who ordered a lot of product. You could call it a promo (or at least group it with promos) since it was a giveaway sort of promoting the set after the fact. Todd probably listed it because he knew it would not likely be listed elsewhere.

It turns out the M1 foil embossed chase card (both the M1 and M2 were inserted one-per-box) was also sent out with the sticker. It's another case of a card from a set being repurposed and arguably considered a variant. Some collectors might say the card is ruined with the sticker - no longer could be graded "Mint"- while others want it because it's another version of the chase card. I've never seen the M2 with the sticker and only one of the M1. Are they rare or just overlooked?

 
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