The poll was almost 50/50 as to whether it is a"true variation" ( with no definition of what that is) or a scarce recurring print defect. I tend to be in the camp of print defect, since if ( big if I know ) a true variation is a card intentionally changed by the manufacturer ( a definition that seems simple but in very hard to verify in many cases), then I think it impossible to know if this defect occurred at the start of printing and was "corrected, or occurred in later runs and was noticed and corrected, orwas just a temporary recurring defect.
But like many of the contributors to the never ending variation thread, I collect recurring print variants whether the hobby recognizes them as variations currently or not. So, I had to have one
