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Folder 267

Europe

Spaced side-B matrix '1 57 693 1-B' (4225106) versus '1576931-B' (507637, 34586323)

Catalogue
1C 038 15 7693 1
Label
EMI
Released
1984
Confidence
Confirmed
Why this grade

German-pressed EMI Electrola DMM mid-price reissue. Barcode 5099915769312 and catalogue 1C 038 15 7693 1 are shared by four LPs on the master (4225106, 507637, 34586323 and the mispress 13823193), so neither decides it. The run-out does: side A is machine-stamped '1576931-A' and '07608-A1', which rules out the mispress 13823193 (its side A is '1 57 545 1-A YEX 619//43093-1Y'), and side B is stamped with the spaced form '1 57 693 1-B' that Discogs records for 4225106, where 507637 and 34586323 both record '1576931-B' unspaced. The labels' boxed GEMA with STEMRA beneath also match 4225106's rights-society entry rather than the 'BIEM / GEMA' of 507637/34586323. The owner's note reads the same run-out strings, including a hand-scratched '3' after side A's matrix (photographed, IMG_5327) and a '2' after side B's, which the photo IMG_5330 shows only as a faint scratched mark too unclear to read with certainty; Discogs records no trailing digit for 4225106 and '7'/'2' for 507637/34586323, so the '3' further separates this copy from those two. Open points: 4225106's notes describe 'yellow' labels where these photograph cream, and the Fame inner sleeve it lists was not photographed. The version list is incomplete by construction, so an uncatalogued pressing with the same run-out cannot be excluded.

Reference
Discogs 4225106
Median sale
DKK 179
Sale range
DKK 75-491
On sale now
38, from DKK 134
Last sold
9 September 2026
A photograph of pressing 267, Europe

What the record says

Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.

Side A: '1576931-A' and '07608-A1' stamped, hand-scratched '3'. Side B: '1 57 693 1-B' and '07608-B1' stamped, a faint hand-scratched mark (owner reads '2').

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 12 of them

Front cover: IRON MAIDEN / The Number Of The Beast artwork

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Back cover top corner: barcode '5 099915 769312', '1C 038 [15 7693 1] DMM'

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Back cover: LC 0542 logo, 'EMI ELECTROLA', 'EMI Electrola GMBH · All rights reserved. EMI Electrola GMBH, Köln', 'Printed in Germany by 4P NICOLAUS GMBH, Köln'

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Back cover tracklist and credits, '℗ 1982 Original sound recordings made by EMI Records Ltd.'

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Side 1 label, cream: 'LC 0542', '1C 038-15 7693 1 A', '℗1982 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Ltd.', 'DMM', 'Seite 1', 'ST 33 STEREO', boxed 'GEMA', 'STEMRA', 'MADE IN EEC', EMI logo

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Side 2 label, cream: '1C 038-15 7693 1 B', 'Seite 2', 'DMM', boxed 'GEMA', 'STEMRA'

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Side A run-out stamped '07608-A1'

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Side A run-out stamped '1576931-A'

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Side A run-out hand-scratched '3'

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Side B run-out stamped '1 57 693 1-B' (spaced)

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Side B run-out stamped '07608-B1'

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Side B run-out: faint hand-scratched mark, not legible with certainty

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

  • Single sleeve, German print by 4P Nicolaus, barcode and DMM in the back-cover corner
  • Black vinyl LP with cream EMI Electrola DMM labels, 'Seite 1' / 'Seite 2'

What distinguishes this pressing

  • Spaced side-B matrix '1 57 693 1-B' (4225106) versus '1576931-B' (507637, 34586323)
  • Side A '1576931-A 07608-A1' rules out the mispress 13823193
  • Boxed GEMA plus STEMRA on the labels, as on 4225106
Eight tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

  1. A1Invaders
  2. A2Children Of The Damned
  3. A3The Prisoner
  4. A422, Acacia Avenue

Side B

  1. B1The Number Of The Beast
  2. B2Run To The Hills
  3. B3Gangland
  4. B4Hallowed Be Thy Name

Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - guitar · Adrian Smith - guitar · Steve Harris - bass · Clive Burr - drums.

Produced and engineered by Martin Birch, assisted by Nigel Green. Recorded at Battery Studios, London; lacquer cut by Nick Webb. Sleeve illustration by Derek Riggs; artwork by Cream. Inner-sleeve photography by Andre Csillag, P.G. Brunelli, Robert Ellis, Ross Halfin and Toshi Yajima; sleeve photography by Simon Fowler; photo montage by Ian Kay. Management by Rod Smallwood for Sanctuary Music. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd. Phonographic copyright and copyright EMI Records Ltd.

Personnel, production and artwork credits are sourced from Discogs release 1466299, the UK original (EMI EMC 3400, 1982) and this master's main release, and apply to the recording rather than to this pressing. Where this copy's own packaging carries the producer, publisher or copyright lines, they are quoted in the evidence above.

Condition, from the photographs

A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.

  • Sleeve: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no splits or seam separation visible in these shots.
  • Vinyl: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches, warping or edge damage in these photographs. The labels are clean and unmarked.

Nothing on this page comes from playing the record. No Goldmine grade is claimed for it, or any other. I have no record of where this copy came from.

What is settled, and what is not

Settled on the side-B run-out spacing and rights-society layout; a photo of the inner sleeve (Fame printed inner per Discogs) would add a further cross-check.