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Originally Posted by Stringmusic
I’m sure that this has been discussed to death but to avoid having to go back through this thread and read the entire thing….
Why does the Bowman Chrome non auto refractors sell for so much more than his Topps chrome numbered refractors? Is it just that it’s a hitting image or is there something else? This doesn’t seem to be the case for anybody else.
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A combination of the iconic batting image and the fact that it's Shohei's one and only "first bowman chrome" card as well as his only bowman chrome card with the Rookie stamp on it. He didn't play in the Minors so wasn't in all the different bowman releases before his big league debut. It's also a relatively short printed base card as it was released in Bowman Chrome, where base is relatively low compared to regular bowman and draft.
Collectors rallied to this card over all others during the (rather late) pandemic spike and it has stuck. Refractors (499) Purple (250) Blue (150) Green (99) Gold (50) Orange (25) Red (5) Super (1) are all the numbered versions, just the traditional ones so I think it helps that 2018 was before all the stupid random new colors.
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