The Beginning of Gold Refractors?

I really actually don't know.  I just got this card, along with the Dernell Stenson on my other blog and a David Wells card in a lot off of Ebay.  This is a 1999 Bowman Chrome Gold card of Alomar with a gold signature.  I think it is possible they decided to go gold refractor after this.  Believe it or not, I had no idea this parallel existed.  I never bought packs of Bowman Chrome in 1999 and for some reason I never saw any of these.  Well now I have one for my Alomar collection as well as one for my Red Sox collection.  And another one to do...something...with.  I don't know.

So there you have it.