1999 UD Ionix

2013-09-25T22:48:27Z

Ghumbs: /* Insertion Ratios */

=Description=

1999 UD Ionix is a 90-card set. Each card is printed on etched Chromium stock, similar to a Topps Finest card. The last 30 cards in the base set make up a short-printed "Technicians" subset.

=Distribution=

20 packs per box, four cards per pack (MSRP: $4.99). Hobby only.

=Reviews=

=Insertion Ratios=

{| class="ratio"
!Cards
!Total Cards
!Numbered To
!Hobby Odds
|-
|[[#Base_Set|Base]]||90||-||?
|-
|short set||60||-||?
|-
|Technicians||30||-||1:4
|-
|Reciprocal||60||750||?
|-
|Reciprocal Technicians||30||100||?
|-
|Cyber||25||-||1:53
|-
|HoloGrFX||10||-||1:1,500
|-
|Hyper||20||-||1:9
|-
|Nitro||10||-||1:18
|-
|Warp Zone||15||-||1:216
|-
|Upper Deck A Piece of History 500 HR Club||1||350||?
|-
|Upper Deck A Piece of History 500 HR Club Autographed||1||20||?
|}

=Checklist=

==Promos==

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SELECT num,player,info from cards WHERE (year = '1999') AND (setname='UD Ionix Promo')
</sql2wiki>
==Base Set==

<sql2wiki database="carddb">
SELECT num,player,info from cards WHERE (year = '1999') AND (setname='UD Ionix') AND (num < 61)
ORDER BY num +0;
</sql2wiki>
===Technicians===

NOTE: All cards from the Technicians subset are erroneously numbered with an "R" subset, as if they were a Reciprocal parallel. These were all uncorrected errors.

<sql2wiki database="carddb">
SELECT num,player,info from cards WHERE (year = '1999') AND (setname='UD Ionix') AND (num > 60)
ORDER BY num +0;
</sql2wiki>

==Parallels==

Each card is available as a "Reciprocal" parallel. As the name suggests, for the Reciprocals the photo on the front of the base card is transferred to the back and vice versa. In addition, each card is sequentially-numbered with an "R" prefix.

Each card is serial-numbered to 750 copies, with the Technicians subset numbered to 100.

==Inserts==

===Cyber===

<sql2wiki database="carddb">
SELECT num,player,info from cards WHERE (year = '1999') AND (setname='UD Ionix Cyber')
ORDER BY SUBSTRING(num,1,1),lpad(substring(num,2),10,0)
</sql2wiki>
===HoloGrFX===

<sql2wiki database="carddb">
SELECT num,player,info from cards WHERE (year = '1999') AND (setname='UD Ionix HoloGrFX')
ORDER BY SUBSTRING(num,1,1),lpad(substring(num,2),10,0)
</sql2wiki>
===Hyper===

<sql2wiki database="carddb">
SELECT num,player,info from cards WHERE (year = '1999') AND (setname='UD Ionix Hyper')
ORDER BY SUBSTRING(num,1,1),lpad(substring(num,2),10,0)
</sql2wiki>
===Nitro===

<sql2wiki database="carddb">
SELECT num,player,info from cards WHERE (year = '1999') AND (setname='UD Ionix Nitro')
ORDER BY SUBSTRING(num,1,1),lpad(substring(num,2),10,0)
</sql2wiki>
===Warp Zone===

<sql2wiki database="carddb">
SELECT num,player,info from cards WHERE (year = '1999') AND (setname='UD Ionix Warp Zone')
ORDER BY SUBSTRING(num,1,1),lpad(substring(num,2),10,0)
</sql2wiki>
==Autographs & Game-Used==

===Upper Deck A Piece of History===

''See [[Upper Deck A Piece of History 500 HR Club]].''

[[Category:Upper Deck]]
[[Category:1999]]

Parallel

2011-11-15T21:24:09Z

Ghumbs:

'''Parallel:''' An [[insert]] set that is almost identical to the [[Base Set | base set,]] except for some small variation.

Probably the very first parallel set in the current sense were the Topps Tiffany sets of the 80s. Another example is the 1991 Topps Desert Shield baseball. The Desert Shield cards had a small foil stamp with a palm tree logo on the front of each card, which was otherwise identical to the regular Topps card of that year. There were only around 6,300 cases produced to be shipped to the soldiers in Iraq, though supposedly most of them never got farther than Shaw A.F.B. in South Carolina. Desert Shield cards are still scarce and command a pretty penny today.

The first parallel as we know them today were the Gold cards in 1992 Topps baseball. The Topps Gold cards were identical to the regular Topps cards, except that it had a Topps Gold logo on the back and the front had the player's name and team name embossed in gold foil. At first, demand for these cards was very high because they were pretty scarce (792 cards in the set, with just one card per wax box). Topps also produced a "Gold Winners" parallel that year in association with a contest. These were similar to the regular Golds but had the word *WINNER* foil stamped on them. Gold Winner cards were given out in ten-card packs to winners of scratch-off contest cards that were inserted into packs, and to people who redeemed a certain amount of non-winning scratch-off cards.

Leaf followed with a parallel of their own in summer 1992 with Leaf Black Gold, a very attractive black-bordered parallel to their base set that was inserted one card per pack. After that, parallels abounded, and still do, in the form of different foil or ink colors, design elements, [[Die Cut | die-cutting,]] or photo selection, though their appeal has certainly worn off in most cases.

[[Category: Hobby Definitions]]

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