90s Chrome Sports Card Green/Hulking (Kobe Chrome Rookie Card!)

What Causes It and How Might it Effect Long-Term Value

If you collected sports cards in the mid 1990s, Topps Finest and then Topps Chrome were the bees knees, the cat’s meow, the snake’s hips, the sardine’s whisker, the flea’s eyebrows, the elephant’s instep, the canary’s tusks, the cat’s pajamas, etc etc etc (and yes those are all phrases that mean the same thing).

But nowadays many of these cards have turned a pale shade of puke green. In this article, we’re…