2020 Panini Elite Extra Edition Baseball Forum

This set has me confused as hell. How does the base set have a print run of 794 but also serialized to 999? I know its Panini, but what the heck?

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The first 203 copies are listed as the 203rd Decade Die Cut parallel set.

This is actually something Donruss/Leaf was doing back in the 1990s - they would create a set, number it to, say, 1000. Then take the first 250, and die-cut them, and call them 2 sets. So the die-cuts would all be 0001/1000 - 0250/1000 - only 250 in the set (PR250) yet serial numbered to 1000 (SN1000).

We consulted with Admin when it came to formatting those sets, and using the PR/SN combo was deemed the best way.

There is the same situation in a few 1990's Wheels (Racing) sets.  The 'first run' type parallels were part of the same serial numbering run as the regular cards, so for each set the print run is less than the serial number run.

-Tom