Souvenir Nova | Currents (Factory New)

Skin overview

Nova | Currents is a Consumer Grade shotgun finish built on a grayscale hydrographic print with silver birds scattered across the gun. In Factory New the bird silhouettes keep sharp outlines and the grey tones stay even from muzzle to stock. It is a quiet, monochrome look that suits players who prefer a clean but unassuming weapon.

Item type: shotgun. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

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

How the skin looks in Factory New

The whole gun is covered in a grayscale hydrographic print: dark charcoal and olive-grey patches overlaid with pale silver bird silhouettes. The birds are most visible on the receiver sides and the wide flat surface of the stock, while the long barrel shows a darker, more mottled section of the pattern.

The print is intact on every part of the gun, including the muzzle and pump ribs. Bird outlines are crisp and the silver accents keep their light tone against the grey. In game the Nova looks uniformly clean at any distance. Nothing on the weapon shows bare metal.

Factory New quality — float range 0–0.07

The whole float range of Souvenir Nova | Currents is 0–0.65; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (11% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The Achroma Collection with 20 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 6th of 9 skins Consumer Grade Nova 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

Silver, white, black and holo stickers suit the grayscale print and echo the silver birds. Placing them on the receiver keeps the bird pattern on the stock visible, and a single bright accent can work as a contrast against the monochrome finish.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since copies near the top of a range look noticeably cleaner than those near the bottom.
• Look at the muzzle, the pump ribs and the stock edges, as these lose print first.
• Make sure the birds on the receiver sides and the stock are intact, because they carry the whole design.
• On Souvenir copies, check the pre-applied stickers and whether they fit the grey colour scheme.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the cleanest possible version of the skin.
• Sticker crafters who need an intact grey background for silver or holo stickers.
• Conclusion: the choice for those who care about a flawless finish.