2017-18 Essentials · parallel
Platinum
- Print run
- unnumbered
- Serial numbered
- no
- Family
- Platinum
- Scarcity
- SSP
Where it was sold
not documented
Applies to
the full 200-card base set of 2017-18 Essentials
Notes
tcdb sid 176270, heading "2017-18 Panini Essentials - Platinum", "Total Cards: 200". NO SERIAL TOKEN ON ANY RENDERED ROW, on two differently-varied fetches: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/176270/2017-18-Panini-Essentials-Platinum (rows 1-86, no token of any kind) and https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/176270/essentials-platinum-second-probe (rows 1-50, a deliberately wrong slug, which ViewSet.cfm does not validate). 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. cardboardconnection writes this tier as "Platinum SSP" at https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2017-18-panini-essentials-basketball-nba-cards -- an SSP is a scarcity statement, NOT a serial-numbering statement, so it is recorded in scarcity_tier and is NOT counted as a second source for print_run=unnumbered; source_confidence is therefore single, per the EXTRACTION_SPEC 2.1 rule that absence of a figure in a checklist is not a statement of fact. 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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