Souvenir AWP | Corticera (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The Corticera finish pairs a slate-blue body with a bright green vine-like motif that wraps around the stock and the grip cut-out. At Minimal Wear the scheme looks practically the same as a new copy at normal viewing distance, with only faint marks visible on close inspection. It keeps the full contrast of the green pattern while usually costing less than the cleanest grade.

Item type: sniper rifle. Classified is the second-rarest weapon tier, only Covert sits above it.

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

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The receiver and stock are painted in a muted blue base, over which green organic shapes with yellow outlines curl around the thumbhole grip and run toward the buttstock. Along the side of the receiver sits a band of green diamond shapes framed by yellow lines, giving the pattern a woven, bark-like texture.

Minimal Wear adds small specks of wear, mostly on the edges of the stock and the lower part of the buttstock. On copies toward the worn end of the grade, light marks can appear around the grip cut-out. In game at normal distance the rifle reads as clean, and the green motif keeps its full brightness. The receiver band with the diamonds and the main green curves remain intact.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir AWP | Corticera is 0.06–0.3; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (33% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

Souvenir AWP | Corticera belongs to The eSports 2014 Summer Collection, which holds 17 skins.

It drops from eSports 2014 Summer Case (on sale since Jul 9, 2014).

What it costs in each quality

Taking Minimal Wear as the baseline, Field-Tested — 4.1× cheaper. The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

By price this skin is 2nd of 14 skins Classified AWP 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.

Stickers and crafts

Green, gold and yellow stickers echo the vine motif and its outlines, while dark blue or holo stickers blend into the base. Placements on the receiver above the diamond band keep the green pattern on the stock uncovered.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the grade, since a low Field-Tested copy can look close to Minimal Wear.
• Look at the edges of the stock and the bottom of the buttstock, as these areas lose paint first.
• Inspect the rim of the grip cut-out and the area around the magazine on more worn copies.
• Note any applied stickers or name tag and decide whether they suit you, since they cannot be moved to another item.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a rifle that looks new in game but costs less than the cleanest grade.
• Buyers planning a sticker craft who accept tiny marks visible only up close.
• Conclusion: a balanced pick between appearance and price.