2017-18 Essentials · parallel

Orange

Print run: unnumbered
Serial numbered: no
Family: other

Where it was sold

not documented

Applies to

the full 200-card base set of 2017-18 Essentials

Notes

tcdb sid 176267, heading "2017-18 Panini Essentials - Orange", "Total Cards: 200". NO SERIAL TOKEN ON ANY RENDERED ROW, on two differently-varied fetches: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/176267/2017-18-Panini-Essentials-Orange (rows 1-72) and https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/176267/essentials-orange-second-probe (rows 1-76, a deliberately wrong slug). THE FLAG COLUMN ON THIS TIER IS EMPTY OF EVERY TOKEN, WHICH ON ITS OWN IS EVIDENCE OF NOTHING (reference/caveats.csv CAV-036 fourth shape). The unnumbered verdict rests on a SAME-ENDPOINT SIBLING CONTRAST, which is the strongest test available here: on Checklist.cfm, for this same base run and this same product, the Silver tier (sid 176271) renders SN99 on all 200 rows and the Purple tier (sid 176272) renders SN1 on all 200 rows, and the Retail tier (sid 176265) renders RC and AU -- so the renderer demonstrably does emit tokens for this product's tiers when they exist. Confirmed on a second differently-varied fetch (a different endpoint, ViewSet.cfm under a deliberately wrong slug, which does not validate the slug). See gaps G-002 for the residual risk. tcdb's Notes cell for this sid reads "Printed on thick stock" -- a card-stock statement, not a serial statement, read on https://www.tcdb.com/Inserts.cfm/sid/171362/2017-18-Panini-Essentials. cardboardconnection names this tier in its ladder but states no print run for it at https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2017-18-panini-essentials-basketball-nba-cards -- and an editorial checklist omitting a figure is not a statement of fact (EXTRACTION_SPEC 2.1), so source_confidence is single, not multi. cardboardconnection lists the base-set parallel ladder as "Retail, Green, Orange, Red, Spiral, Platinum SSP, Silver #/99, Purple 1/1" at https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2017-18-panini-essentials-basketball-nba-cards -- 8 names, matching tcdb's 8 Parallel Sets rows at https://www.tcdb.com/Inserts.cfm/sid/171362/2017-18-Panini-Essentials name for name. CHANNEL NOT ASSIGNED. The only channel evidence found anywhere for this product is PRODUCT-level: cardboardconnection's "with an average of two autographs per Hobby box" and its configuration line "6 cards per pack, 10 packs per box, 12 boxes per case" at https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2017-18-panini-essentials-basketball-nba-cards, plus tcdb's parent Notes "Hobby set is the base set here, and the Retail set is listed as a parallel here." at https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/171362/2017-18-Panini-Essentials. None of those speaks to THIS tier and none asserts exclusivity, so channel is UNKNOWN with an EMPTY channel_basis per EXTRACTION_SPEC 2.3 (channel=UNKNOWN with a non-empty basis is rejected by the database). See gaps G-001.

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