Two New Gold Piazzas

Gold:
-Carries the element symbol AU, which derives from the Latin word for gold "aurum".
-It resides on the periodic table with an atomic number of 79 and has a hardness of 2.5 on Moh's scale of mineral hardness.
-Highly conductive of electricity, gold can often be found in electrical components.
-The current price of gold is $1,659.26 USD per troy ounce as of today at 9:54 EST.

No jokes today. I'm just dropping some fucking knowledge.

The other week, I saw a 2003 Danbury Mint Piazza on ebay which, quite honestly, I knew nothing about. It was all gold looking but mostly importantly, it was shiny. Very shiny. I like that. Shiny makes me happy. Like, really happy.

Usually, if I don't know anything about a card, I'll pass it up until I can find some more info on it, but this had zero bids at .99 cents with $1.50 for shipping, so I figured why the hell not. I put a max bid of $3 and then we played the waiting game. Ultimately, I lost. But about a week later I had a message form the seller asking if I as still interested in buying the card for $3. I said "yes sir, please and thank you" and the card is now mine!


Is till don't know too much about these cards. From what I've gathered is that they are printed on 22k gold backed paper, are only available through a subscription with the Danbury Mint and that the cards take really shitty pictures.The card came in it's own little plastic case witch is juuuuust too big to fit inside of a 9-pocket page.

The second gold Piazza I won within the same week and I found it just doing a random search on ebay. Another $3 pick up, a 1997 Stadium Club "Pure Gold 'Members Only'".


The normal "Pure Gold" inserts are seeded 1:72 but these fancy "Members Only" parallels are only distributed to Stadium Club members! What makes this card soooo different and special?! On the card back the words "Members Only" are printed lightly in the background.

...

yeah.

Wanna know the pathetic thing? I'll still be on the lookout for the regular "Pure Gold" version.

sigh

(...Joe)