Slabnomics Set Deep Dive: 1996 Topps Chrome Football

1996 Topps Chrome Football is the inaugural set of the most important modern chrome brand, and the market still has not priced it correctly. In the first Slabnomics set deep dive, we go through the full history: why Topps needed an innovation after junk wax fatigue, how 1993 Topps Finest set up the refractor, and why Topps was so unsure about Chrome that they barely printed it. Then the math. We close with a framing exercise every collector should run: what would it actually cost ...