Card Identification Forum

I have this card https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/5548/cid/1255033

It has embossing

PACIFIC
TRADING CARDS
Fall
Expo
2000
Toronto Nov 10-12 2000

and a maple leaf.

Any knowledge about these? I only found online cards that were Pacific Omega set.

It wasn't uncommon for manufacturers emboss cards at shows during that timeframe. Because a lot of the embossing was one-offs they wouldn't be listed here. However, when a known release was done at shows, Toronto and Chicago come to mind, those do get listed because the checklist is known.  

These would have been embossed at the Pacific show booth. You could have any card you wanted embossed.  These type of embossed cards are not listable in the database.

Ok thank you, so I'll just treat this as a regular card, that most likely is not worth even the price of a regular :D

You can add it to your Collection and use Detailed Add. Then add a Comment about the embossment.

You could load it as the regular card then in the "detailed add" option add a note about the embossing.

As to value - it is in the eye of the beholder. Some may see the embossing as just "graffiti" on an otherwise normal card while others may see it as creating a point of difference and adding some value. It is completely up to the individual.

For what it's worth:

I have SEVERAL of these types of cards (heck, I was even allowed to emboss my own cards a couple times). I asked Admin about adding them and his response was that we can't list them because there really is no way of knowing what exists, and add to that the fact that there are reports of people (like me) who embossed their own, but switched out the card at the last second and embossed Topps and Upper Deck cards! What I do is I add another copy of the card that is embossed to my collection, then I edit the details on that copy, and enter in the "Comment" field which show it was stamped at. Others cannot see it, but I can, and that's what is important to me.

As far as "value" goes, just like with any other cards, it all depends on who is looking for something like that. If it was a player I collected and from a show I wasn't at, I might go double the card's normal selling price just to have the different card. Not being a player I collect, I don't want it at all, and if I was trying to put a set together and this was a missing card from that set, I would pass on it so I could get a non-embossed copy (to match the rest of my set). So it really does depend on the player and who collects them.