Folder 96
UK & Europe
The three price codes together, 084 / PM 516 / CDEM 1577 - the discriminator. Read off one native crop of the inlay and recorded on 392660 as three separate territory-keyed price codes with the same three values.
What the record says
Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.
Read by the owner directly off the disc on 2026-09-27 - this supersedes any earlier reading below: disc 1 EMI UDEN 8360472 @ 1 1-1-15-NL IFPI L046; disc 2 EMI UDEN 8360482 @ 2 1-1-10-NL IFPI L046.
No photograph in this folder shows either disc's inner mirror ring, so no matrix or SID code was read. Discogs numbers ten variants for each disc: for disc one they resolve to eight distinct matrix strings, all beginning EMI UDEN 8360472, and for disc two to nine, all beginning EMI UDEN 8360482, each variant paired with its own mould SID code. Those are named here as what to look for, from Discogs, and not as anything seen on this copy.
Disc 1: EMI UDEN 8360472 @ 1 1-1-15-NL — this copy's ring IS Disc 1 variant 3 of the 16 matrix entries Discogs records.
Disc 2: EMI UDEN 8360482 @ 2 1-1-10-NL — this copy's ring IS Disc 2 variant 2 of the 16 matrix entries Discogs records.
Barcode and Other Identifiers: Matrix / Runout
As Discogs records them for release 392660. Green: in my collection (3 of 16). Red: missing.
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 1 variant 1) | EMI UDEN 8360472 @ 1 1-1-10-NL |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 1 variant 2) | EMI UDEN 8360472 @ 1 010102-NL |
| ✓ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 1 variant 3) | EMI UDEN 8360472 @ 1 1-1-15-NL — this copy, copy 155 |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 1 variant 4) | EMI UDEN 8360472 @ 1 1-1-13-NL |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 1 variants 5 & 10) | EMI UDEN 8360472 @ 1 1-1-4-NL |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 1 variant 6) | EMI UDEN 8360472 @ 1 1-1-12-NL |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 1 variant 7) | EMI UDEN 8360472 @ 1 1-1-3-NL |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 1 variants 8 & 9) | EMI UDEN 8360472 @ 1 1-1-6-NL |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 2 variant 1) | EMI UDEN 8360482 @ 2 010102-NL |
| ✓ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 2 variant 2) | EMI UDEN 8360482 @ 2 1-1-10-NL — this copy |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 2 variant 3) | to be confirmed |
| ✓ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 2 variants 4, 5 & 10) | EMI UDEN 8360482 @ 2 1-1-11-NL — copy 155 |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 2 variant 6) | to be confirmed |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 2 variant 7) | to be confirmed |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 2 variant 8) | EMI UDEN 8360482 @ 2 1-1-2-NL |
| ✗ | Matrix / Runout (Disc 2 variant 9) | EMI UDEN 8360482 @ 2 1-1-8-NL |
Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 6 of them
Front, through the wrap, sticker: 2 LIMITED EDITION PICTURE DISCS. / ORIGINAL ALBUM PLUS BONUS CD. and the catalogue MAIDCAT10
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Rear inlay catalogue block at native resolution: 7243 8 35875 2 0 over barcode 7 24383 58752 0, and the boxed row I: 084 / F: PM 516 / UK: CDEM 1577 / Printed in Holland
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Disc one, a picture disc over the album artwork: MADE IN HOLLAND, LC 0542, the round bel over BIEM device, STEREO, EMI and 7243 8 35875 2 0
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Disc two, the bonus disc: its own tracklist and ℗ 1995 Iron Maiden Holdings Ltd., with MADE IN HOLLAND
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Disc two, catalogue line and rim: the round bel over BIEM device, STEREO, and the rim text the copyright in this compilation
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Both discs in the case, showing that this is a two-disc issue rather than a single-disc reissue in a double case
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The photographs
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The object, and what marks it out
Sleeve, labels and inserts
- Two discs, both picture discs printed over artwork rather than plain silver, in one case.
- The front sticker survives and is legible, which is what names the set as
MAIDCAT10- a number that appears nowhere else on the object, and one that 392660 records in its own notes as the sticker's text. - Wrap - present over the front in the first frame; the case is open in the later ones.
- Printed in Holland, per the inlay, and both discs say
MADE IN HOLLAND. Discogs records the set as pressed and glass-mastered at EMI Uden.
What distinguishes this pressing
- The three price codes together,
084/PM 516/CDEM 1577- the discriminator. Read off one native crop of the inlay and recorded on 392660 as three separate territory-keyed price codes with the same three values. - Two discs, one of them a bonus compilation - 392660 is filed as
1 x CD Album, Reissueplus1 x CD Compilationplus1 x All Media Limited Edition, which is the shape of this object. A single-disc row cannot match it whatever its catalogue number. MAIDCAT10on the front sticker - a second discriminator, and an independent one. 392660's notes quote this sticker directly:Sticker: "2 Limited Edition Picture Discs. Original Album Plus Bonus CD MAIDCAT10". That is the text on this copy's sticker, read off a native crop, matched against a row that records it and no other row that does.Printed in Hollandon the back andMADE IN HOLLANDon both discs - 392660's notes state exactly this split,Back cover: Printed in HollandandDiscs: Made in Holland.- Barcode
7 24383 58752 0- the match axis, and here unusually strong for a barcode: it returns one row rather than the ten a 1988 barcode returns. Still corroboration rather than proof. bel/BIEMandLC 0542- recorded on 392660 and shared with every other EMI Uden pressing of the era. No help by themselves.
Eight tracks, and the recording credits
Tracks 1-4
- 1Moonchild
- 2Infinite Dreams
- 3Can I Play With Madness
- 4The Evil That Men Do
Tracks 5-8
- 5Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
- 6The Prophecy
- 7The Clairvoyant
- 8Only The Good Die Young
Bruce Dickinson - vocals · Dave Murray - lead and rhythm guitar · Adrian Smith - lead and rhythm guitar, synth · Steve Harris - bass, string synth · Nicko McBrain - drums.
Produced, engineered and mixed by Martin Birch. Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, New York. Recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich. Sleeve illustration, concept and design by Derek Riggs (with Rod Smallwood). Inner-sleeve photograph by Ross Halfin. Published by Zomba Music Publishers Ltd.
Personnel and studio credits are sourced from Discogs release 576952, 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
Settled on three price codes rather than on one barcode. The catalogue block on this inlay carries an Italian price code, a French one and a UK one, and 392660 records all three with the same values in the same territories. Any one of them alone would be a weak signal; three agreeing on a row that the barcode already returned uniquely is a strong one.
The physical shape agrees too, and independently: this is two discs, one of them a bonus compilation, and 392660 is the only row in this master filed that way.
What would make it airtight rather than merely settled: either disc's mirror ring. 392660 documents its stamper variants in detail and pairs each with a mould SID, so a raking-light frame of a hub would place this copy inside a numbered variant rather than only inside the release.
Standing caveat: the version list is incomplete by construction.