Card Identification Forum

It seems there may be 2 cards #10 in this set; Emmitt Smith and Terrell Davis.  Your database shows card #10 as Emmitt Smith:

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/80583/cid/5715644/1996-Pro-Line-II-Intense---Phone-Cards-$5-10-Emmitt-Smith?PageIndex=1

The card I have is Terrell Davis (Photo's attached to this thread)

Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2022 5:14 PM
To: Jack@Bednarcik.com
Subject: re: Contact Us - Error

If you're able to, please post images if the card into the card identification area. Here's the link:

https://www.tcdb.com/Forum.cfm/Page/M/ID/0/5/Card-Identification-Forum

Thanks,

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https://www.tcdb.com

Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2022 2:30 PM
To: feedback@tcdb.com
Subject: Contact Us - Error

Name: Jack Bednarcik

Email Address: Jack@Bednarcik.com

Message:
THis may not actually be an error, not on your part anyway. I have a 1996 Proline Intense II Terrell Davis $5 Phone Card #10 graded by PSA, but in their database they listed it as Emmitt Smith. They did so because here on this site The 1996 Proline Intense II $5 phone Card #10 is Emmitt Smith. I have scans and pics of both cards (Really strange). I"m asking that you update you database to list both Terrell Davis and Emmitt Smith as Card #10? Not sure what else we can do here

This is an interesting one. So far after looking around I haven't been able to find more examples of your card on Google, eBay, or COMC. It's not listed on Beckett either.

I know, strange.  Had the card forever.  Normally I would be extremely overjoyed to have such a rare, maybe 1-1 type card, but something tells me not to get too excited just yet  :-).  Hoping someone can shed some light on this one (PSA is confused themselves on this one).  Thx for reply

Here are come back-to-back comparisons (Try to attach a link to this post)

I noticed the Batch number on the Davis card is the Batch number (1741168) plus the Serial Number (251/4929); the Smith card they are separated out.

The Batch#-Serial# style and font, as well as the Scratch-Off area seems to match those used on the higher value phone cards from the same product:

$10:

$25:

$1000:

I wondered if the difference had something to do with a running change in production, but this Elway card on COMC has an even lower serial number and still matches the rest of the set:

I also wonder if it was some sort of preview or sample that was inserted in a different product, but the 1995 Pro Line $5 Preview phone cards are clearly marked as such.

It is a mystery for sure.  Hopefully someone will have some more info.

-Tom

In looking at the Batch Numbers for all of the 1996 $5 Phone cards, based on the pics in the set on this site, Cards #1-10 all have a Batch Number of 1741167, and Cards #11-20 all have a Batch Number of 1741168 (Regardless of the S/Ns), so the batch numbers change after Card #10.

The Terrell Davis is card #10, I'm wondering if they meant to create a Terrell Davis card but when they realized they stamped it with the incorrect Batch Number for card #10 (They should have made it #1741167), and stamped it with a Batch Number that was reserved for cards #11-20, they scrapped the Terrell Davis card(s) and went with Emmitt Smith with the correct Batch Number?

And if they scrapped that card, they may have meant to destroy all of the Terrell Davis cards and this one, or very few in total, made it out to production?  Hard to imagine they released 4929 Terrell Cards and not 1 reference exists anywhere on the internet (Had a T206 Honus Wagner ring to the story...lol)

Wish someone had a way to contact someone from Scoreboard, or Proline (Or maybe Sprint) that may know exactly what happened  :-)