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Gold Autographed Baseball Card
I bought 2 boxes of Japanese baseball cards (2008 BBM 1st Version). I've found 5 or 6 cards with an autograph facsimile in silver ink. But I found one (Munenori Kawasaki) with an autograph facsimile in gold ink. On the back in gold ink is printed "71/100" which indicates this is a rare card for this player in which only 100 were made with the gold autograph facsimile. The silver autographed ones don't have the markings indicating a limited number were made.

Can anyone tell me about this? Is the gold autographed one truly rare? Is it worth a lot?
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Re: Gold Autographed Baseball Card
[ Author: Deanna | Posted: Jul 16, 2008 11:25 AM | NIP Fan ]

My guess is that it's worth about 4,000 yen because it's Munenori Kawasaki. I've seen the gold limited signatures at stores a bit and they usually go for around that much for popular players. (Though it depends. I had a limited autograph one of Yoshinobu Takahashi from last year's set and saw a similar one selling for 5,000 yen at a store that had a lot of Giants stuff.)

There's a couple of other insert cards in the set that have parallel limited 100-card runs (notably the Gold Gloves and Best 9 have them), but I'm not sure what the going rate is for them, you could check around Yahoo Auctions or something I suppose. They're pretty neat so when I get them I just keep them anyway!
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Re: Gold Autographed Baseball Card
[ Author: 2DBB08 | Posted: Jul 19, 2008 7:20 PM ]

Thanks for the input. You got me looking at my other cards for the other limited special types and I have 3 more.

I have 61/100 of the Michihiro Ogasawara "Best 9" card.
I have 27/100 of the Kazuyuki Akasaka "Rookie" card.
I have 7/100 of the Yusuke Kuroda "Rookie" card.

I also have found 2 regular Yu Darvish and 2 "Best 9" Yu Darvish cards. I'm definitely holding onto all the Yu Darvish cards I find.

It's interesting that they're worth that much, but I'm not selling and it just makes my collection that much more interesting.
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