Found two Ripken's on worthpoint
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/cal-ripken-1999-pacific-prism-532284821
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/50-pacific-prism-gold-lot-cal-ripken-jr-196
The one 1996 certified card I had laying around just so happened to be the same one that started this thread. Very difficult to get it started and can't imagine trying on a high dollar card.
1997 Elite Gold corrected version of Cal Ripken. Most of them the box on the front where Donruss Elite is the box was silver. Error and corrected versions existed for the following cards with the corrected version much more difficult to find. 6 Cal Ripken, Jr. , 15 Tony Gwynn , 25 Eddie...
I guess they do exist. Was the checklist harder to find than the regular Rave card for Rodriguez? I still have never seen a Ripken checklist and have seen many of the regular Ripken Rave cards. Back in the day of the AOL Grandstand Message Boards I had offered a good amount if someone could...
Like Ryan said its the cropping that makes it different and now that I looked at the back they are different too. The color is slightly different, and that could be for a variety of reasons, but not as much as the scans make it seem. Below are pictures taken with my camera.