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Today I'm going for the gold. I have several dozen "gold" cards in my collection, not just gold foil stamping on a card but GOLD Baby! Due to the embossing it was hard to get decent scans of them but here's a look at nine of my "gold" cards.

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1993 ProMint 22K Gold #2 Nolan Ryan (This 22 karat gold foil card of the man with the golden arm contains more than 17 square inches of gold.)
1994 Topps Collector's Club Measures of Greatness Gold Plated #606 Ken Griffey Jr. (Unrecognized by Beckett, this card has Ken Griffey Jr. printed on it although other than the Seattle uniform, I can't see any resemblance.)
1995 Bleachers #2 Hank Aaron/1995 Classic/10000 (Bleachers released many individual gold cards throughout the 1990s. This one commemorating the then Home Run King is 23 karats.)

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1996 Bleachers #41 Cal Ripken/1996 Diamond Star/21310 (I won this card in a bidding war at Collector's Corner, a local LCS in Brewer, Maine in the early 1990s. the owner would have in-store auctions once a week and I paid $5 more than it is worth today but I thought it was beautiful and I wanted it. I have a Griffey Jr. from this set too.)
1996 Bleachers #46 Alex Rodriguez/1996 Black Autograph/5000 (Another one from the Bleachers line of one of the players who's actions ended up disappointing me the most.)
1996 Ruth Danbury Mint #1 Babe Ruth (I believe this was the first baseball card produced by the Danbury Mint. I saw an advertisement where I could send away for this free card and only pay a couple dollars shipping. The Danbury Mint would then send me offers to purchase additional cards they'd produced with no obligation to buy and I could quit at any time. I got this card then I quit but since then I have acquired several dozen of these cards of different players.)

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1997 Stadium Club Pure Gold #PG18 Mike Piazza (This 1997 Stadium Club insert was produced on 20 point embossed gold mirror foilboard.)
1998 Scoreboard 23K Collection #4 Mark McGwire/History Breaking in Red (This 23 karat gold foil was produced by Score Board, Inc. during their final days before declaring bankruptcy.)
1999 Danbury Mint-22Kt Gold #NNO Pedro Martinez (This card, also produced by the Danbury Mint, came in a plastic folder that has a clear card holder and a write up on Pedro on one side and a card and write up of Nomar Garciaparra on the other side.)