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1998 Pinnacle Epix Baseball Cards
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Great write up! Glad I stumbled on your blog. My favorite insert set of the 90’s. I’ve been working on a master set (absent of the recently discovered bk examples) for probably 15 years now. 95% of the way there. So close! Great site!
Thanks, John. I’m glad you like it.
Great article! Any information about Epic Press Plates, how many exist and were released in packs? I’ve seen mention of them before, but not sure how far they stretch — do 8 (4 colors, front and back) exist for each district card?
Hi Dan,
This is a great question and thanks for asking it. In 1998, Pinnacle packed-out printing plates for a variety, if not all, their cards from that year. What’s known is that plates exist for the Epix set – CMYK each for front and back – for a total of eight plates per Epix card.
Hey Patrick,
Thanks for the great article explaining 1998 Pinnacle Epix and all its variations. I’m an avid collector and this has baffled me for a while. I’m also a CSUN grad and live locally. Drop me a line so we can talk or trade cards a bit.
Hi Vaughan,
Thanks for the comment. I’m glad you found this article helpful. Great to hear you’re a CSUN grad; I love that school.
Hi Patrick – a very helpful resource! It may be that you have some of the numbering off for the Epix Season cards. It looks to me like the Mo Vaughn card is E17 and Clemens is E16 from examples I’ve seen online, but on this page you have them the other way around. Can you help?
Hi Chris,
Good catch! Upon review, I had it right on the All-Star checklist but wrong on the others. They are now correct.
Great article. This is by far my favorite set for 1998. Tuff to find Mint or even GM due to condition sensitivity of the fronts and especially the back edges. I have a complete Jeter set with headers and Play (bankruptcy) versions – which are all amazing. I will comment that for so many plates said produced, I hardly ever see them on the secondary market – which makes me wonder. I don’t believe these all made it into packs and much may have been tossed during bankruptcy. I believe what maybe on the secondary market may be from what was purchased during bankruptcy liquidation, which may not have been much since not much is moving on places like eBay. Not seeing printing plates of less popular players are an indication of non-existent stuff. I have eyed Jeter stuff for decades on eBay and I just don’t see any. Any printing plate that surfaces from that period also has authenticity questions based on fake productions known. I caution collectors on purchasing printing plates from the 90s without authentication or company placed stickers that authenticate the plate. Also a note for the bankruptcy releases – I read that items were purchased in lots and not all lots where in same quantity. Some players like Griffey where said to have around 10 copies of each while Jeter had around 5 copies of each. I have not heard of numbers of others to report. But based on the two referenced, I would speculate that all players where produced in extreme low numbers before liquidation and only a handful of each player currently exist (probably less than 10 of each). On production notes of all others, emerald versions are tuff at 10% of the overall production – but just as tuff are the purple at 20% of the overall production. With Emerald moment at said 30 produced, I would bet the Purple moment may only have 60 produced, even though nothing is concrete – but with such a lack of purple on the secondary market, I can speculate that the production numbers are accurate at 20% of overall production and they are tuff (super undervalued). These are my takeaways for the Epix cards in 98. Great chat
Hi Chris,
I really appreciate the time you took to share your thoughts on this issue. Thank you.