Instead, I opened the envelope and found this:
Cool, a 1999 Topps Tek Gold Tino Martinez, numbered to just 10!
I think this is my only graded Tino. I might have one or two others I don't recall. This card didn't grade out too strongly, as the corners and surface dragged it down. I think I might free it at some point.
Topps Tek is both an awesome and stupid/frustrating set at the same time. The cards are really nice - and I loooove clearcuts - but it's super confusing and the concept is pretty maddening. 1999 had both home/away versions as well 30 different patterns. Oh, and the year before had 90 patterns. WTF.
But still, for far too long I treated these cards as a "have" for a single card on my Tino list, but that's silly. They are parallels and different cards. So I need to go back through my collection of these and pull out all the unique ones. It'll inflate my Tino numbers a bit more, but they are different cards, dumb as it may be.
This is definitely my first gold though, so I thank Matt for thinking of me. Any time I can get a super low numbered Tino, I'm very happy. Thanks, Matt!
Congrats on the new Tino! I also agree with you about Tek.
ReplyDeleteSecond Tek post I've read today. Love me some Tek... but love me some Napoleon Dynamite just a tad bit more.
ReplyDeleteThat scene from Napoleon Dynamite is awesome. That card is nice too.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time that I've ever seen one of the gold's... looks expensive!
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the card. Seems like a good card to free from its graded coffin.
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