Retail

Where it was sold

Retail

How we know: a source confirms presence in this channel.

Applies to

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

Notes

tcdb sid 176265, heading "2017-18 Panini Essentials - Retail", "Total Cards: 240" -- NOTE THIS TIER IS WIDER THAN THE BASE RUN: it spans the 201-240 Rookie Autos block as well as base 1-200. Checklist.cfm/sid/176265/...?PageIndex=3 renders 37 rows numbered 201-240 (222, 227 and 239 absent) flagged AU with NO SN token, which is the SAME 37-row population the Hobby parent renders as "AU, SN99". NO SERIAL TOKEN ON ANY RENDERED ROW of this tier, on two differently-varied fetches: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/176265/2017-18-Panini-Essentials-Retail (rows 1-74) and https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/176265/essentials-retail-second-probe (rows 1-80, a deliberately wrong slug). This tier's flag column is NOT empty -- it renders RC and AU -- so the absence of SN here is a within-sid discriminative result, the strongest form available: the same column on the same page does emit tokens. tcdb's own Notes line for this sid reads "Printed on thin stock, except for rookie autographs which are thick stock but are NOT serially numbered." (read on https://www.tcdb.com/Inserts.cfm/sid/171362/2017-18-Panini-Essentials and again on the ViewSet probe above) -- an explicit positive statement of non-numbering, though it covers the rookie autographs rather than the base rows. source_confidence is single: cardboardconnection names "Retail" in its parallel ladder at https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2017-18-panini-essentials-basketball-nba-cards but states no print run and does not carry that sentence, so there is one source for the value. 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. [Scope note: tcdb models Retail as ONE sid spanning both the 1-200 base run and the 201-240 Rookie Autos block, so the same sid supports two differently-scoped rows; this row is the base-set one and a set-scope row for Rookie Autos is filed separately. See gaps G-013.]