SCF Official Review: 2008/09 Topps Treasury

**trevorp121** · 10-11-2008, 01:13 AM

On behalf of SCF and the Basketball Team, we would like to Thank Topps for sending us this box of Treasury for us to review.

Product Description:

Product Description

18 packs per box, 5 cards per pack

2008/09 Treasury Basketball features HOBBY EXCLUSIVE Rip Cards including "They're Money" Rip Cards along with 14K Gold Rookie Medallion Cards and Magic and Bird's All-Rookie Team Cards!

CONTENT BREAKDOWN
RIP CARDS - INSERT 1 PER HOBBY BOX!
- Rip Card Exteriors(50) - Seq. #'d.
- Rip Card Interiors(50)

Exteriors & Interiors are featured in the parallels below:
- Platinum - All one of one.! Hobby Exclusive!
- Gold - Seq. #'d to 10.
- Silver - Seq. #'d to 25.
- Bronze - Seq. #'d to 99.

Autographed Mini(20) - 2 per Hobby Case!
Logoman Mini(30) - One of one! Hobby Exclusive!

"THEY'RE MONEY" RIP CARDS
"They're Money" Rip Card Exteriors(10) - Seq. #'d.
- Parallel Version - All one of one! Hobby Exclusive!

"They're Money" Rip Card Interiors(429 cards) - $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, and $1000!

FRAMED PRINTING PLATES - HOBBY EXCLUSIVE! ALL ONE OF ONE!
- Veterans/Retired(70 subs/280 plates)
- Autographed Veteran/Retired(30 subs/120 plates)
- Rookie(20 subs/80 plates)
- Autograph Rookie(20 subs/80 plates)

BASE CARDS
Veteran/Retired(100)
- Platinum - All one of one! Hobby Exclusive!
- Gold - Seq. #'d to 50.
- Silver - Seq. #'d to 199.
- Bronze - Seq. #'d to 999.

Rookies(20)
- Platinum - All one of one! Hobby Exclusive!
- Gold - Seq. #'d to 50.
- Silver - Seq. #'d to 199.
- Bronze - Seq. #'d to 2008.

Autographed Rookies(20)
- Platinum - All one of one! Hobby Exclusive!
- Gold - Seq. #'d to 10.
- Silver - Seq. #'d to 25.
- Bronze - Seq. #'d to 50.

14K GOLD ROOKIE MEDALLIONS - HOBBY EXCLUSIVE!
Rookie Medallions(15) - Seq. #'d to 25.
- Gold - All one of one.

ALL-ROOKIE TEAM AUTOGRAPHED CARDS - HOBBY EXCLUSIVE! INSERTED 1 PER CASE!
- Magic's All-Rookie Team Dual Autographs(10) - Seq. #'d to 50 or less.
- Bird's All-Rookie Team Dual Autographs(10) - Seq. #'d to 50 or less.
- Magic and Bird's All-Rookie Team Triple Autographs(5) - Seq. #'d to 10.

All-Rookie Team Autograph Cards Parallel - One of one! Hobby Exclusive!

COMBINED INSERTION RATE FOR AUTOGRAPHED/RELIC CARDS - 1 AUTOGRAPH AND 1 RIP CARD PER BOX!

Here is a video of the break

What we pulled...
Base- 68/100
Base Rookies- 11/20
Duplicates- 0
Rookie Refractors /2008- 2
Refractors /999- 4
Rookie Silver Refractors /199- 1
Autographs- 1
Rip Cards- 1

Sample of three of the base cards

Here is 6 of the RC's that we pulled

Here are the base refractors /999

Now these are the Rookie Refractors /2008

Lopez Silver RC Refractor /199

Shaquille O'Neal Rip Card /299

And Finally the Derrick Rose Rookie Refractor Autograph

Topps Treasury is one of the new sets that Topps is realeasing this year for Basketball cards. I personally really like the cards, the card stock the base are on are thin and dont have a glossy feel to them. I think it is a nice change to all of the glossy cards out there today. Along with the base you can pull refractors whick are absolutely beautiful in person. You also get one Rip-Card and one Autograph in every box. This year Topps has introduced a "THEY'RE MONEY Rip-Card, where there is anywhere between $10 and $1000 hidden inside each one. We did not pull one of those money rip cards in our break but here is what we pulled. During our break I opened the hits in the first 6 packs which was kind of dissapointing I was hoping they would be at the back of the box. The hits were great from this box we got a RC Refractor of Derrick Rose the #1 pick from the 08-09 NBA Draft and then for our Rip-Card we got a Shaquille O'Neal /299.Along with those two main hits we got 7 Refractors (Brook Lopez /199, Mario Chalmers /2008, Danilo Gallinari /2008, Hedo Turkoglu /999, Amare Stoudemire /999, Al Thornton /999, Udonis Haslem /999) and 11 Rookies ( Rose, Rush, Koufos, Gallinari, Beasley, Chalmers, Bayless, Westbrook, DeAndre Jordan, Robin Lopez, Brook Lopez). In closing I really hope Topps decides to bring this set back next year too. I had alot of fun opening these cards.

Final Ratings:

Base set: 4.75/5
Fun: 5/5
Overall design: 5/5
Value: 4.75/5
Rebuy: 4.5/5

24/25 - 96%

Again I would like to Thank Topps for providing us with this box to review.

As always the base cards will be given away to SCF Members, the thread will be in the main trading forum. And the Inserts will be used for SCF prizes!