R2 RARE 1991 TSR AD&D Gold Border RPG and 50 similar items

About the item: Released in Series I of the Premier Edition (1991) AD D collector trading card set, this card is in near mint condition and will be shipped with the utmost care. Both the front and reverse of the card are shown in the scan. Of note, there were two different levels of rare cards in this series one set. The first (and rarest) with ten cards (of which there was 3,000 made of each of these ten cards) and the second with twenty cards (of which there were 4,000 made of each of these twenty cards). This card is from the second tier of rare cards in the set, of which only 4,000 were made. To explain, this set was released in the the early days of the chase card craze. In what would become common practice for most trading card companies, manufactures inserted chase cards into random packs. These chase cards were usually part of a "sub-set" and were harder to find than regular cards in the set. TSR decided to follow suit. However, they did not include any sort of chase card "sub-set" like holograms or foil cards. Instead, they decided that regular and randomly numbered cards from the base set would be made "rare." So, out of the ultimately 750 cards that comprise the 1991 AD D trading card set (all individually numbered, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. all the way up to 750) cards numbers - by way of example only - 28, 77, 262, 365, 400, 541, 710, 728 were rare cards and printed in much lower quantities than the other cards in the set. Series I was the most rare, including ten cards that only 3,000 were printed and twenty cards that only 4,000 were printed. Series II featured the same, but with 10,000 and 13,000 of each level of rare card instead of 3,000 and 4,000. In other words, it is only possible for there to be 3,000 hand-collated sets to exist. Given that numerous people were never able to complete their sets due to the rarity of the 60 total cards, yet having some in their hands, it created a situation to where, though it is theoretically possible to have 3,000 sets hand-collated, the actual number is vastly lower. In the over twenty-five years since this set was released, I have only seen two hand-collated sets. TSR did release a factor set that include all the cards, but they have "silver" borders whereas the cards from the pack have "gold" borders. This card is a gold border, pack pulled card and is not one of the reprint silver border ones from the factor set.