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Few things bring joy to a graders eye after being chained to a wall and forced to grade at knife point for 16 hours a day. (only kidding, sort of…) One of those bright spots in the day is cataloging new versions of counterfeit cards.

 When a counterfeit card is found, we check the card against our ever-growing counterfeit database. If the version of the counterfeit is not in our database, the card image and other card vitals are recorded and entered into the database.

With the current popularity of Favre, it’s no wonder this card has surfaced. A “no number” version of the 1991 Score Brett Favre rookie card is circulating through the hobby that is actually counterfeit.

The front of the card is actually pretty close to an authentic copy.

The Score logo has been recreated to resemble the original and the image is not too far off from the real thing.

The back is where you will find your evidence.  The quick identifier on this phony is the absence of the card number, 611, on the reverse of the card.

The examples we have seen have a very muddy looking NFLPA logo, sloppy to the point of being completely unreadable under a loupe. The gold border on the reverse is also slightly off from the original color.

What makes this fake dangerous is that it is easy bait for on-line auctions. Since the majority of on-line auctions only show card fronts, it would be easy to pass this counterfeit off on an unsuspecting bidder.

Count on Beckett Grading to be your number one source for counterfeit card information.