2016-17 Panini Select Signatures #S-CP Christian Pulisic

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The 2016-17 Panini Select Soccer product was only the second year Panini issued a Select Soccer product and as is typical of Panini Select products, the base set is split into multiple tiers of rarity with a player sometimes having a base card in multiple tiers.  In this case, there were three levels of rarity in the set, the rarest two of which contain Christian Pulisic rookie cards.  The 2016-17 Panini Select Soccer product contained five total Christian Pulisic rookie year cards inclusive of three insert cards.  In addition to the 2016-17 Panini Select Mezzanine Level #150 Christian Pulisic USMNT short print rookie card (with its eleven parallels, including the base card) and Panini Select Field Level #287 Christian Pulisic Borussia Dortmund super short print rookie card (with ten different parallels, including the base card), the 2016-17 Panini Select Soccer product contained three different Christian Pulisic autographed insert cards, each featuring Pulisic in his USMNT jersey and each with their own parallel rainbow.  These three different autographed insert cards consist of the Select Signatures #S-CP (with eight total parallels), the Jersey Autographs #JA-CP (with seven total parallels) and the Emerging Star Signatures #ES-CP (with eight total parallels).  Notably, these were Christian Pulisic’s first autographed cards of any type (these three USMNT autographed cards were followed six days later by his first Dortmund autographed rookie issued in the Panini Black Gold set).

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The 2016-17 Panini Select Soccer product has proven very popular over the years and we believe this owes to several factors.  This product was released on December 30, 2016, making it the first pack-based product to contain cards of Christian Pulisic in his U.S. Men’s National Team (USMNT) uniform and his USMNT Mezzanine Level base card in the product also features the biggest rainbow of any Christian Pulisic rookie card with eleven total parallels (including the base).  Finally, there was no Panini Prizm product containing Christian Pulisic rookie cards back then, leaving the Panini Select, along with the Panini Donruss (which did not contain a Pulisic USMNT card, but instead a Borussia Dortmund card), as Panini’s traditional flagship products for Pulisic’s rookie year.

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The 2016-17 Panini Select Soccer product was issued only one way: in twelve-box hobby cases with a stipulation of “at least one autograph and two memorabilia cards in each box on average” (indeed, what makes this product an intriguing pack chase is hobby boxes were the only means of distribution, so any pack may contain any of the five Christian Pulisic rookie year cards or their respective parallels). 

Fortunately, all the autograph cards are serial numbered.  For the 2016-17 Panini Select Signatures #S-CP, the below table lists each of the eight versions of this card in order from least rare to most rare: