Post Yer Shiny Foil Crap!
 

Let's pay tribute to the best of the worst...I like the ol' foil:

1997 Pinnacle Summit Above and Beyond. Silver foil in hand but they scan a rainbow of colors:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...%20Mussina.jpg

1998 Pacific Die Cut. More silvery foil

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...c%20Thomas.jpg

1996 Pinnacle Starburst. A wealth of foil color:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...rst%20Sosa.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...%20Griffey.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...%20Bagwell.jpg

1997 Topps Stadium Club Matrix

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...ix%20Boggs.jpg

1997 Fleer Ultra Double Trouble:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...e%20Rivera.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...ddux-Jones.jpg

1996 Pinnacle Power. Shiny foil and die cut overlays. Yay!

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...r%20Piazza.jpg


1997 Topps Hall Bound

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...d%20Piazza.jpg

love foil!

Here are a few.

Some of the best looking (dufex) cards from 93 Select

A few more. Obviously nothing high end, but I dig them.

Shiny.

1% Shiny Stuff : 99% Vintage is a happy balance.
 

But the shiny is kinda fun, sometimes...
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My Foil Crap

The Shining, Part II
 

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Some foil love ❤️
 

Here is a bunch of FOIL from my early collecting days! Love this tread already. Makes me want more crap for some reason.

Vladdy
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LOL, Dustin...the stuff is like card crack. I go to the store near my office (Burbank Sportscards) every week or two and riffle through 5000 count boxes looking for cards from sets I enjoy at $0.50 per card. Since I basically didn't collect from 97-now, I am making up for a lot of lost time.

OH I love a good dollar box search. I don’t see any 50 cent box’s by me. But everyone an again I will buy some “crap” when the price is right.

Great stuff. I wish I could post pictures here. Adam, I share your affinity for Dufex culture.

Arthur

The Benefactor Foil

Another...

Does it diminish the value of a refractor to peel the coating? I hate having that junk on there and that keeps me from buying things like mirror gold cards.

Adam- i'm not sure if peeling them hurts the value. I do know they look much better without it.

I've always looked at the coating as an outlast. They issued them both with and without. I figured people would eventually peel because they're so ugly and the population of cards with coating would go down over time. I'm probably just looking way to much into something that really doesn't matter.

Arthur

I can't believe this set is 22 years old...

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...sts%20Sosa.jpg

These just turned 20:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...20Martinez.jpg

Yes it is better to have the coating. I peeled most of mine mainly football. In my last post the Mays and Mantle are not peeled because I had them in screw downs and didn’t want to open them up to peel them.

After peeling them there was a weird smell that I loved for some reason. I would buy packs just to peel them, I would even peel my friends cards lol.

The coating does not effect the grade with or with out but but there is a premium for the coating to remain unpeeled.

Here's a few.
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/819/4...bde08b81_z.jpghttps://farm1.staticflickr.com/806/4...bd7fd7ba_z.jpghttps://farm5.staticflickr.com/4780/...a6d147cd_z.jpg
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/802/2...f7e27792_z.jpghttps://farm1.staticflickr.com/785/4...750fe215_z.jpghttps://farm5.staticflickr.com/4507/...974be04f_z.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pUOWyMoh.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/IUR7zaQl.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/17zKAPml.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/dNrEjwhl.jpg

one of the 9's I have after I cracked it out for cleaning and polishing since it had surface grime all over it. resubbed it trying to get a 10.

https://i.imgur.com/CSyrpftl.jpg