Anyone know what the print run is for the 1998-99 SP Authentic Sign of the Times Gold parallel? I'm looking to purchase 1 more high-end Jordan card and one of these just popped up on the bay. Exactly what i'm looking for but not really liking that faded autograph. If the print run is high enough i'll just pass on this and wait for a cleaner autograph to come onto the market.
1998-99 SP Authentic SOTT Gold print run?
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So based on the box's odds(which are the correct ones), its 1 in 1500 to pull any one of the four players.
These Gold autos weren't numbered, however the rookie cards were! There are 30 RC's if I am not mistaken. Each numbered to 3,500. So 105,000 rookie cards total.
There was ONE rookie card per box, so there were 105,000 boxes using those very simple stats. Times the 105,000 boxes by the number of packs, which I believe were 24...... I opened many of these boxes back in the day, and I'm pretty sure they were 24 and not 36 like I'm thinking. So let's say 24 packs per box.
So... when you times the 105,000 boxes times 24 packs each, it equals 2,520,000 packs total.
Odds of receiving a Gold auto is one in 1,500 packs. So you take the total amount of packs that existed - 2,520,000 and you divide that by 1,500 (the odds of the ONE auto), which comes out to 1680.
So 1680 total Gold autographs. Now divide that into 4 players in the Gold auto set, and that makes it exactly 420 cards each.
Answer: 420
For the record (at least according to the writing on the box/wax), there is no concrete indication that the rookie cards fall one per box. It is only stated that each rookie card is limited to a print run of 3500 copies. In other words, it is possible that some boxes contain more than one rookie card, while some might have none at all, or possible that there are some other combination of odds. We just never know for sure.
So while what you mentioned regarding the SOTT Gold cards might be true (there is another collector on another forum also guessing that each SOTT Gold card has a print run of roughly 500 copies), I have some reservation regarding the odds of hitting a rookie card from this product.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1998-99-SP-Authentic-Basketball-Sealed-Hobby-Box-/272392965320?hash=item3f6be2ccc8:g:JjEAAOSwmLlX6yNm&nma=true&si=FCk8kOigRw1BH7GUeoCdOiPtEpY%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
I myself, for the record again, opened one and only one box of this sometime ago and indeed hit one rookie card (forgot the name but definitely not one of those big ones), but this is not a large enough sample for me to draw such conclusion of odds of hitting any rookie card, and again, the writing on the wax never indicates that, so technically, you are not guaranteed a rookie card by opening a box of this.
So while what you mentioned regarding the SOTT Gold cards might be true (there is another collector on another forum also guessing that each SOTT Gold card has a print run of roughly 500 copies), I have some reservation regarding the odds of hitting a rookie card from this product.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1998-99-SP-Authentic-Basketball-Sealed-Hobby-Box-/272392965320?hash=item3f6be2ccc8:g:JjEAAOSwmLlX6yNm&nma=true&si=FCk8kOigRw1BH7GUeoCdOiPtEpY%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
I myself, for the record again, opened one and only one box of this sometime ago and indeed hit one rookie card (forgot the name but definitely not one of those big ones), but this is not a large enough sample for me to draw such conclusion of odds of hitting any rookie card, and again, the writing on the wax never indicates that, so technically, you are not guaranteed a rookie card by opening a box of this.
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