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2016-17 Panini Aficionado First Impressions #FI-CP Christian Pulisic
The 2016-17 Panini Aficionado Soccer product was released toward the later stages of Christian Pulisic’s rookie season on April 26, 2017. The Aficionado brand was re-introduced by Panini in 2016-17 for soccer and basketball 20 years after it was used by Pinnacle to produce a premium 1996 baseball set. Like its baseball predecessor in 1996, the soccer and basketball products each only had one-year set runs in 2016-17. The 2016-17 Panini Aficionado Soccer product includes four total Christian Pulisic rookie-year cards: a base rookie card #41 (which has six parallels, including the base version), a Global Reach subset card #184 (which has five parallels, including the base version), a Craftworks insert card (which has no parallel versions), and a First Impressions autographed insert card (which has four parallels, including the base version).
The 2016-17 Panini Aficionado Soccer product was only issued in hobby boxes that each included one serial numbered autograph card per box. Thus, we can sum all these serial numbers and conclude there are 16,660 total autograph cards and the same number of boxes produced.
The 2016-17 Panini Aficionado First Impressions #FI-CP autograph card Christian Pulisic is a very limited and underappreciated autographed card from his rookie year. For perspective, there are four versions of this card and the aggregate print run is still less than the base version jersey autograph card within the 2016 Select Soccer product, which has a print run of 99 copies. There are only 91 copies of this card over the four versions, which makes this a very intriguing card in our opinion. The four versions are each serial numbered and consist of the base /40, Red Artist’s Proof /30, Bronze Artist’s Proof /20 and a Gold Artist’s Proof 1/1:
Version | Print Run | Print Run Basis | Boxes For One Pulisic | Cases for One Pulisic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Base | 40 | Serial Numbered | 416.50 | 34.71 |
Red (Purple) Artist's Proof | 30 | Serial Numbered | 555.33 | 46.28 |
Bronze Artist's Proof | 20 | Serial Numbered | 833.00 | 69.42 |
Gold Artist's Proof | 1 | Serial Numbered | 16,660.00 | 1,388.33 |
Any #FI-CP | 91 | Serial Numbered | 183.08 | 15.26 |
As of January 2026, PSA has graded only four copies of the base autograph card (one of which graded PSA 10), six copies of the Red Artist’s Proof autograph card (one of which graded PSA 10) and three copies of the Bronze Artist’s Proof autograph card (two of which graded PSA 10). BGS actually has graded five copies of the base card (three of which are graded BGS 9.5), and one copy each of the Red and Bronze Artist’s Proof autographs (both of which graded BGS 9). None have been graded by CGC or SGC.