By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor

For the select few collectors who found artifacts of a different kind in their boxes of 2012 Allen & Ginter baseball cards, today is your day.

The mystery of the Ginter Artifacts cards is no more.

On Friday, Topps detailed exactly what the “unusual artifact[s] from the past” are for the N43 redemptions.

They are:

Card No. 1 – Carcharodon Megalodon tooth (10 million years old)
Card No. 2 – Bronze coin (Roman Empire)
Card No. 3 – Cleoniceras Species fossil (120 million years old)
Card No. 4 – Native American stone point (500 – 9,000 years old)
Card No. 5 – Neolithic stone point (3,000 to 8,000 years old)

Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball magazine. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.

Join Beckett Baseball‘s Chris Olds as he rips into several types of 2012 Topps baseball packs in this latest edition of Ripping Retail — two days before the official street date for the product.

What will he find inside? Watch and find out …

By Andrew Tolentino | Football Editor

You can’t hurry love.

According to yesterday’s company release, collectors will just have to wait until early 2012 for 2011 Topps Supreme. The hobby-exclusive line is slated for a late-January arrival and its details are best absorbed with the following background music:

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Living up to its brand name, Topps Supreme is a high-end, one-pack-per-box kind of product. Each concentrated break offers two base cards, one red parallel, one autograph, and one autograph Relic or Relic card.

16-box cases tell an even more superlative story, each guaranteeing:

• Four autographed Relics (a new feature)
• Four autographed Rookie Cards ( a new feature)
• One multi-player autograph card
• One single player autograph
• One additional autograph in an aforementioned form
• Five Supreme Relics

Supreme standouts from Supreme include Hall of Fame Cut Signatures, autographed six-piece Relic book cards, eight-autograph book cards, rookie quad Relics, Supreme rookie die-cut Relics, jumbo Supreme patch cards, and a plethora of parallels.

More images and maybe even another Supremes song after the jump.

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