2017-18 Vanguard · parallel

Purple

Print run: not documented
Serial numbered: not documented
Family: other

Where it was sold

not documented

Applies to

Notes

tcdb sid 184211, "Total Cards: 27". THE DISTINCT SERIAL-TOKEN SET OF THIS TIER IS EXACTLY {SN25, SN15}, enumerated over all 27 rows in one fetch and NOT sampled: https://www.tcdb.com/Checklist.cfm/sid/184211/2017-18-Panini-Vanguard-Cosmic-Force-Signatures-Purple. SN25 on 23 rows and SN15 on four: CF-CBK Charles Barkley, CF-KAJ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, CF-KML Karl Malone, CF-SON Shaquille O'Neal. ⚠ PER-CARD VARIABLE RUN, SO print_run AND serial_numbered ARE BOTH UNKNOWN. The tier is PROVABLY serial numbered - every row carries an SN token - but the tokens disagree with each other, and migrations/003_parallels.sql (run_and_serial_agree) cannot express serial_numbered=yes with print_run=UNKNOWN, so the fact is carried here and in a gaps row instead. Writing the modal token would be a false sourced integer on the minority rows. EXTRACTION_SPEC 2.3. cardboardconnection itself declines to give one figure - it writes "Purple #/25 or #/15" (https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2017-18-panini-vanguard-basketball-nba-cards) - so both sources agree the tier is not flat. See gaps G-005. CHANNEL NOT ASSIGNED, DELIBERATELY. No source found in this build asserts channel EXCLUSIVITY for this product or for any tier of it. The two strongest statements anywhere are both PRESENCE statements in the sense of reference/caveats.csv CAV-010: Panini America's own blog says "On average, each hobby box of 2017-18 Vanguard Basketball (five cards per box, six boxes per case) will deliver four autographs and one base card or parallel." (https://blog.paniniamerica.net/the-panini-america-quality-control-gallery-2017-18-vanguard-basketball-50-images/) and cardboardconnection says "Formerly a Pacific brand across several sports from the early 2000s, each Hobby box of the basketball product averages four autographs." (https://www.cardboardconnection.com/2017-18-panini-vanguard-basketball-nba-cards). Both describe what a hobby box CONTAINS; neither says the product is sold only through hobby. channel is therefore UNKNOWN with an EMPTY channel_basis and an EMPTY channel_confidence, which migrations/003_parallels.sql requires (basis_iff_channel_known rejects channel=UNKNOWN with channel_basis=unsupported). See gaps G-004.

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