Souvenir AK-47 | First Class (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This AK-47 pairs green leather panels with a gunmetal receiver and a reddish-brown grip. At Minimal Wear the look stays almost identical to Factory New, with at most faint marks on edges that are hard to spot in game. It suits a buyer who wants the clean look without paying for the top grade.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The handguard and the stock are wrapped in dark green leather with a fine grain texture. The receiver, top cover, gas tube and magazine are a plain gunmetal grey, and the barrel and front sight are dark.

Small light marks may appear on the very edges of the handguard leather and the stock heel. The receiver can show a few tiny scuffs that need a close look to find. At normal distance in game it looks the same as Factory New. The grip, magazine and leather panels stay clean.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir AK-47 | First Class is 0–1; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (8% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Baggage Collection with 15 skins in total. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 3rd of 8 skins Restricted AK-47 in this quality (the first being the dearest).

Souvenir version

This is the Souvenir version: such copies dropped to tournament viewers in souvenir packages; the team stickers and signatures on them cannot be removed or chosen. Souvenir items never carry StatTrak™. There is also the regular version without tournament stickers.

Which stickers suit it

Gold, cream, brown and dark green stickers suit the leather-and-metal look. Placements on the grey receiver stand out best, since the green panels can swallow darker stickers.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since copies near the cleaner end of a grade look noticeably better.
• Look at the edges of the handguard leather and the stock heel, as these lighten first.
• Inspect the receiver and magazine for scratches on worn copies.
• Check applied stickers and name tag, since they change the look of a plain finish a lot.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look in game for less than Factory New.
• Sticker crafters for whom tiny edge marks do not matter.
• Conclusion: a sensible balance between look and cost.