2023–24 Panini Crown Royale Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Basketball is more premium. Panini’s third mainstream release with the league focuses much more on autographs and other hits than the previous Donruss and Prizm sets. There’s also the first batch of EuroLeague Kaboom inserts.
The Crown Royale hobby boxes only contain one pack of eight cards. Among them is both an autograph and a souvenir card.
2023-24 Panini Crown Royale EuroLeague Basketball Checklist Overview
Crown Royale is not a new brand. In fact, it existed before Panini’s own foray into basketball cards. Its origins lie in the 1990s with Pacific Trading Cards, a company known for its outlandish designs. Crown Royale was one of them, highlighted by base cards that were die-cut into the shape of the company’s crown logo at the top. That tradition continues here across 100 cards.
As with Panini’s previous EuroLeague sets, players come from both the present and the past, allowing some current NBA stars like Luka Doncic to appear.
Parallels that can be combined with inserts to make three per hobby box are Red Crystal (/49), Purple Crystal (/25), Gold Crystal (/10), and Platinum Crystal (1/1). Some base cards also have autograph versions.
It’s not just the base set that has die-cut designs. These are carried over in various ways to most other parts of the checklist, including autographs, memorabilia cards and inserts.
The headline of the autograph contents is a Crown Royale classic: silhouettes. These also have color patterns embedded in them.
Other autograph inserts include signatures on the Crown Jewels, autographs on Royal Court shirts, majestic signatures, royal achievement signatures and royal signatures.
The relics include coats of arms, heirs to the throne, knights of the Round Table and memorabilia of the monarchs.
The best regular insert set is Kaboom!. These are extremely short printed and have gold parallels (/10) that are even harder.
Additional supplements include Hand Crafted, The King’s Court, Pillars of the Game, Sno Globe and Test of Time.
2023-24 Panini Crown Royale Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Basketball at a glance:
Cards per pack: Hobby – 8
Packs per box: Hobby – 1
Boxes per box: Hobby – 12
Set size: 100 cards
Release date (subject to change): TBA
What you can expect in a hobby box:
- Autographs – 1
- Reminder Cards – 1
- Insertions or parallels – 3 total
- Base maps – 3
The full 2024–25 Panini Crown Royale EuroLeague Basketball checklist will be available as soon as it is available, likely shortly before the product’s release.
