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        <issuerName>PUBLICARD INC</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>CARD.OB</issuerTradingSymbol>
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            <rptOwnerName>FREUND HARRY I</rptOwnerName>
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            <rptOwnerStreet1>C/O BALFOUR INVESTORS</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>ONE ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, 14TH FLOOR</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>NEW YORK</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>NY</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>10020</rptOwnerZipCode>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Mr. Freund disclaims beneficial ownership of the 5,454 shares of PubliCARD Common Stock held by his wife.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Shares are held by the Balfour Defined Benefits Pension Plan (the &quot;Plan&quot;), of which Mr. Freund is a Trustee and Plan Administrator and in which Mr. Freund is a participant.  Mr. Freund disclaims beneficial ownership of 5,850 shares of Common Stock held by the Plan (based on Mr. Freund's proportionate interest in the Plan of approximately 55%).</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Options have been granted pursuant to an agreement with PubliCARD under which PubliCARD had agreed to reissue 500,000 options which were cancelled on February 16, 2001 for 500,000 options with an exercise price equal to the closing market price of PubliCARD's Common Stock on such reissuance date.  Pursuant to the agreement, one-third of the options vested on August 20, 2001, with the balance vesting quarterly over the following twelve quarters.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Options have been granted pursuant to PubliCARD's 1999 Long-Term Incentive Plan.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">Options have expired.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">Options have been granted pursuant to PubliCARD's Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/HARRY I. FREUND</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2006-08-20</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
