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Album disc stamper 1-1-5-NL is unrecorded on Discogs for this release; the eleven filed CD 1 rings are all 1-1-1, 1-1-9, 1-1-10, 1-1-13 or 1-1-15.

Catalogue: 7243 8 35874 2 1
Label: EMI United Kingdom
Released: 1995
Confidence: Confirmed
Why this grade
The 1995 EMI two-disc limited edition, Dutch-made, with the four-track bonus CD in the grey hinged tray. The tray card prints 7243 8 35874 2 1 over barcode 7 24383 58742 1, the price boxes I: 084 and F: PM 516, UK: CDEM 1576 and Printed in Holland; both disc faces read Made in Holland and LC 0542, and the bonus disc's own number 7243 8 36046 2 3 is printed on its face. Only one row on the master carries that catalogue number, 2088858, and every marker on the copy agrees with it. The mirror rings pin the plant: both read EMI UDEN with -NL stampers, the plant Discogs files for this release. The bonus disc's ring, EMI UDEN 8360462 @ 3 3-1-6-NL, with mould ifpi 1547, is the Variant 2 CD 2 entry on the release -- Discogs types that entry's number as 8360452, but the 3-1-6-NL stamper and the IFPI 1547 mould are recorded nowhere else, and the later variants file the bonus disc as 8360462, so the digit is their typo, not a different disc. The album disc's stamper, 1-1-5-NL, is NOT among the eleven recorded CD 1 rings (1-1-1, 1-1-9, 1-1-10, 1-1-13, 1-1-15), so this copy is an undocumented stamper of the album disc paired with a documented bonus disc. The owner's phone note gave both rings and ifpi 1547, and the photographs bear every character out, so the note decided nothing on its own; it did point to the mould code on the bonus hub, which IMG_6228 then shows. No mould SID was photographed on the album disc's hub. The version list is never complete, so an uncatalogued pressing sharing this card and these rings can't be ruled out.
Reference: Discogs 2088858
Median sale: DKK 214 (kept from 2026-09-23)
Sale range: DKK 120-374
On sale now: 6, from DKK 172
Last sold: 17 June 2026

What the record says

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

Both discs' inner mirror rings were photographed under raking light, each in two or three frames. Album disc: IMG_6222 reads, in dot-matrix lettering, EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 followed by two filled squares; IMG_6223 is a closer frame further round the same ring and reads 1-1-5-NL in stamped outline lettering, with IFPI L046 in solid lettering just inside it. Joined in the order Discogs files them, the album disc's ring is EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-5-NL. Bonus disc: IMG_6225 reads EMI UDEN 8360462 @ 3 in the same dot-matrix lettering; IMG_6226 reads 3-1-6-NL in outline lettering with IFPI L046 beside it; IMG_6228, a frame of the clear hub, shows the same -NL run faintly above IFPI L046 and, on the hub itself, the mould code ifpi 1547 in the lower-case ifpi script. Joined, the bonus disc's ring is EMI UDEN 8360462 @ 3 3-1-6-NL. The mastering SID IFPI L046 and the mould SID ifpi 1547 are kept out of ring= because Discogs files them as separate identifier types.

Disc 1: EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-5-NL — not among the 22 matrix entries Discogs records: an undocumented stamper.

Disc 2: EMI UDEN 8360462 @ 3 3-1-6-NL — not among the 22 matrix entries Discogs records: an undocumented stamper.

Barcode and Other Identifiers: Matrix / Runout

As Discogs records them for release 2088858. Green: in my collection (2 of 22). Red: missing.

✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 - CD 1)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-9-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 - CD 2)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 3 3-1-11-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 - CD 1)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-1-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 - CD 2)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 3 3-1-6-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 - CD 1)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-13-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 - CD 2)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 3 3-1-5-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 4 - CD 1)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-10-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 4 - CD 2)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 3 3-1-1-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 5 - CD 1)	`to be confirmed`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 5 - CD 2)	`EMI UDEN 8360462 @ 3 3-1-12-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 6 - CD 1)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-13-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 6 - CD 2)	`EMI uDEN 8360462 @ 3 3-1-8-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 7 - CD 1)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-10-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 7 - CD 2)	`EMI UDEN 8360462 @ 3 3-1-1-NL`
✓	Matrix / Runout (Variant 8 - CD 1)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-10-NL` — copy 144
✓	Matrix / Runout (Variant 8 - CD 2)	`EMI UDEN 8360462 @ 3 3-1-12-NL` — copy 144
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 9 - CD 1)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-15-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 9 - CD 2)	`EMI UDEN 8360462 @ 3 3-1-11-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 10 - CD 1)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-1-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 10 - CD 2)	`EMI UDEN 8360462 @ 3 3-1-4-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 11 - CD 1)	`EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 1-1-1-NL`
✗	Matrix / Runout (Variant 11 - CD 2)	`EMI UDEN 8360462 @ 3 3-1-7-NL`

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

Front of the jewel case: IRON MAIDEN / SOMEWHERE IN TIME booklet cover, grooved spine on the left

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Tray card through the back of the case: eight-track list, PLAYING TIME 51:18 MINUTES, PRODUCED, ENGINEERED AND MIXED BY MARTIN BIRCH, ℗ 1986 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Ltd., © 1986 Iron Maiden (Holdings) Ltd., white barcode block top right

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Barcode block at native resolution: 7243 8 35874 2 1 above barcode 7 24383 58742 1, boxes I: 084, F: PM 516, UK: CDEM 1576, Printed in Holland, and the vertical line Place of manufacture as stated on label / Marketed and Distributed by EMI beside the EMI logo

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Rear insert seen from inside the open case, with its own 7243 8 35874 2 1 in a black box top right, and the spine reading IRON MAIDEN · SOMEWHERE IN TIME · EMI RECORDS LTD · 7243 8 35874 2 1

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Album disc face in the grey hinged tray: Wasted Years video-screen artwork, SOMEWHERE IN TIME, STEREO, EMI logo, rim text © 1986 Iron Maiden Holdings Ltd. LC 0542 All rights of the producer and of the owner of the work reproduced reserved ... Made in Holland, and a catalogue run beginning 7243 8 360 near the rim

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Album disc mirror ring under raking light: EMI UDEN 8360452 @ 1 then two filled squares

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Album disc mirror ring, further round: stamper 1-1-5-NL with IFPI L046 inside it

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Bonus disc face in the second hinged tray: Stranger In A Strange Land bar-room artwork, SOMEWHERE IN TIME BONUS CD, STEREO, EMI logo, rim text © 1986 Iron Maiden Holdings Ltd. LC 0542 ..., ℗ 1995 The copyright in this compilation is owned by EMI Records Ltd., 7243 8 35874 2 1 (7243 8 36046 2 3), Made in Holland.

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Bonus disc mirror ring under raking light: EMI UDEN 8360462 @ 3

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Bonus disc mirror ring, further round: stamper 3-1-6-NL with IFPI L046

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Bonus disc clear hub: mould SID ifpi 1547 below the -NL run and IFPI L046

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Inside face of the rear insert: BONUS CD with tracks 1. Reach Out, 2. Juanita, 3. Sherriff Of Huddersfield, 4. That Girl, writer and publisher credits, ℗ 1986 EMI Records Ltd., © 1995 Iron Maiden Holdings Ltd., 7243 8 35874 2 1 top right, and the row of nine albums THESE ALBUMS NOW AVAILABLE AS LIMITED EDITIONS WITH BONUS CD with their 7243 numbers

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

Standard-width jewel case holding two discs on a grey double-sided hinged tray, the album disc on the left leaf and the bonus disc on the right.
Rear insert printed on both sides: the album tracklist and barcode block outside, the bonus CD tracklist and the nine-album advert inside.
Lyric booklet in the front of the case; its inner pages were not photographed.
No hype sticker is visible on the case front in the photographs.
Both discs picture-printed edge to edge, the album disc with the Wasted Years screen and the bonus disc with the bar-room scene; tray card shows light surface wear around the barcode.

What distinguishes this pressing

Album disc stamper 1-1-5-NL is unrecorded on Discogs for this release; the eleven filed CD 1 rings are all 1-1-1, 1-1-9, 1-1-10, 1-1-13 or 1-1-15.
Bonus disc 3-1-6-NL with mould ifpi 1547 is exactly the Variant 2 CD 2 entry, give or take Discogs typing its number as 8360452.
French price box F: PM 516 and Italian I: 084 filled in, as the release's identifiers list.

Eight tracks, and the recording credits

Tracks 1-4

1Caught Somewhere In Time
2Wasted Years
3Sea Of Madness
4Heaven Can Wait

Tracks 5-8

5The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
6Stranger In A Strange Land
7Deja-Vu
8Alexander The Great

Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - lead and rhythm guitar, guitar synthesizer · Adrian Smith - lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals, guitar synthesizer · Steve Harris - bass, bass synth · Nicko McBrain - drums.

Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch. Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound. Bass, bass synth and drums recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau; guitars, vocals and guitar synth recorded at Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum; mixed at Electric Lady Studios, New York. Sleeve illustration by Derek Riggs; sleeve concept by Derek Riggs and Rod Smallwood. Inner sleeve photograph by Aaron Rapoport. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.

Personnel and studio credits are sourced from Discogs release 1701390, the UK original, 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.

Case/inlay: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no cracks or splits visible in these shots.
Disc: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches or disc-face damage in these photographs.

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

A raking-light frame of the album disc's clear hub would add its mould SID, which Discogs has for every other recorded CD 1 variant; it would not change the identification.