1990 U.S. Playing Cards #5D Silver Series

Card Review: 4.9  As an individual card this "Silver Series" is nearly impossible to distinguish from the standard '90 U.S. Playing card.  The only real discernible difference is the way the corners are cut.  This Silver Series card has sharply cut corners, while the standard card has more traditional rounded playing card corners.  I've posted a picture below for comparison.

Thats the standard card on the left, and the Silver Edition on the right.  When looking at a full deck of these cards, and I don't have any other cards from this deck/set, the other difference is much easier to see.  The edges of these cards are painted silver.  Even knowing it was there, I had to tilt this card in just the right light to see the silver paint.

Below are some pictures I lifted from an ebay listing.  I didn't take the pictures and don't have the cards, but they clearly show that when a complete deck of cards is stacked that the borders are silver.

Number of this card in my collection: 1

1990 U.S. Playing Cards #5D

Card Review: 5.0  There's nothing really wrong with this.  It's just a playing card.  As a playing card it more than works.  As a baseball card, it's really only half a card.

I'd like to have the whole deck of these.  I don't.  Just this one.  Not sure how Wallach didn't end up an Ace or at least on a face card.

*Update* A generous reader sent me a whole deck of these.  They're great, I highly recommend dropping to $2 or $3 on ebay to pick one up.

Number of this card in my collection: 2
2012 update: 6
2013 update: 7
2014 update: 23
2015 update: 25
2016 update: 27
2017 update: n/a
2018 update: 34
2019 update: n/a
2020 update: 35

2021 update: n/a

2022 update: 36

2023 update: 38