Been a while since I added anything. The Alshon's are hard to see but one is #/65 and the other a true 1/1.
However they are overshadowed by Edgerrin James. You see I've wanted this card for over 20 years. I first saw one like it in a display case at my local card shop in Chicago (Big John's and Little Debbies near Cicero and Peterson on the north side -long gone :/). I think this card plus all the packs I busted back then helped spark how my collecting is now.
This card looks like a bog standard Future's Finest insert normally serial numbered out of 500. However this one is numbered out of 100. Clearly a numbering error off the presses but what an interesting concept to me that a card could be mis-serial numbered! Especially coming out of a pack like that.
Anyways it was priced in the case like it was refractor and I never bought it. After the LCS owner closed down his store in favor of shows and online sales I would ask him from time to time if he still had it but it was buried or sold. Once a couple years ago another graded copy surfaced but the seller wanted over $125 for it. I tried negotiating down but no luck. Then the 3rd example pops up!
I don't know how many of the /500 got incorrectly serial numbered to /100, if any Refractors got numbered to /500, or if all 10 cards in the insert set got the same error but I can confirm I've seen these:
McNabb 76/100, 86/100, 96/100
Williams 73/100
James 61/100 (BGS), 96/100, unknown # from Chicago LCS
Couch 94/100
Anyways, thanks for reading and if you run across any other oddball Finest cards, especially from 1999, let me know!
However they are overshadowed by Edgerrin James. You see I've wanted this card for over 20 years. I first saw one like it in a display case at my local card shop in Chicago (Big John's and Little Debbies near Cicero and Peterson on the north side -long gone :/). I think this card plus all the packs I busted back then helped spark how my collecting is now.
This card looks like a bog standard Future's Finest insert normally serial numbered out of 500. However this one is numbered out of 100. Clearly a numbering error off the presses but what an interesting concept to me that a card could be mis-serial numbered! Especially coming out of a pack like that.
Anyways it was priced in the case like it was refractor and I never bought it. After the LCS owner closed down his store in favor of shows and online sales I would ask him from time to time if he still had it but it was buried or sold. Once a couple years ago another graded copy surfaced but the seller wanted over $125 for it. I tried negotiating down but no luck. Then the 3rd example pops up!
I don't know how many of the /500 got incorrectly serial numbered to /100, if any Refractors got numbered to /500, or if all 10 cards in the insert set got the same error but I can confirm I've seen these:
McNabb 76/100, 86/100, 96/100
Williams 73/100
James 61/100 (BGS), 96/100, unknown # from Chicago LCS
Couch 94/100
Anyways, thanks for reading and if you run across any other oddball Finest cards, especially from 1999, let me know!
