I had to make some choices in what I consider a separate variety, Jerry.

Certainly some are major varieties and some are of less importance. Different player name didn't make it <g>. The presence of a punched hold didn't make it, since you could then have changed one variety to another yourself.

However, different way of imprinting player name did (embossed versus thermal imprint). Different manufacturer made it if the manumark is different (as yours is). Different typestyle did, if it changes the way the sentences are arranged on the card. Just as Archie did with the A.C. chip reference, if I can see a difference in color, that's a 'variety' to me. Any change to the graphics on the front (arrows, different spellings, different arrangement of symbols, etc.) makes it a variety. We'll see how this goes.

Some collectors think a card with no name is a different card. I choose to consider that a kind of 'condition', not a variety. I do think that, eventually, non-imprinted cards will trade at a premium, and there will be some collectors who want only blank cards. Another challenge is to collect only cards with your own name on them!

Your card is the same as the 'blue card with white arrows' that I posted (except for the hole) right?

DonL