AK-47 | Ice Coaled (Factory New)

The AK-47 | Ice Coaled in Factory New (FN) is the top rung of the finish: a bright green-and-blue paint job that wear has never touched. It is a Classified skin from The Recoil Collection and drops from the Recoil Case. The float scale of this wear runs from 0.00 to 0.07.

What the AK-47 | Ice Coaled looks like in Factory New

Valve describes the finish as a bright gradient from green to blue and captions it "Cold to the touch". That is the whole description: Valve names no inscriptions and no extra colors.

The band is narrow, 0.00 to 0.07, so copies barely differ from one another. The finish's own scale is cut off at 0.77. That gives Factory New a slightly larger share of it than on skins with a full scale: 9% against 7%.

Where the AK-47 | Ice Coaled came from

The finish comes from REINCARNATION, a Steam Workshop contributor who also made the AWP version. The skin entered the game on July 1, 2022, when The Recoil Collection was added.

In its release note Valve presented the Recoil Case as a set of seventeen finishes by community artists. Valve's catalog number for this finish is 1143.

What to check before buying

Three things are worth checking on an AK-47 | Ice Coaled before you buy:

• the float value: a 0.00 copy is cleaner than a 0.07 one, even though the wear name is the same;


• the stickers and name tag already on that particular copy;


• the listing type, regular or StatTrak, since the two are priced differently.

You cannot hunt for a lucky pattern on this rifle, because there is only one.

What the AK-47 | Ice Coaled costs in Factory New

This is the price peak of the finish, and every other wear is cheaper:

• Minimal Wear costs a little over half as much;


• Well-Worn is almost three times cheaper;


• Field-Tested is roughly three times cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is more than three times cheaper.

Well-Worn costs more than both of its neighbors on the scale, Field-Tested and Battle-Scarred.

Among the fourteen Classified AK-47 finishes in Factory New, this one is the cheapest. AK-47 | Searing Rage and AK-47 | Phantom Disruptor come next. AK-47 | Cartel and AK-47 | The Outsiders cost three to four times as much, and AK-47 | Hydroponic holds the top of the rank.

Getting the AK-47 | Ice Coaled

The skin drops from the Recoil Case, and no other case holds the finish. A trade-up contract is the other route.

The contract takes ten Restricted skins from the same collection and returns the AK-47 | Ice Coaled as one possible result. The inputs come from Dual Berettas | Flora Carnivora, M249 | Downtown, P90 | Vent Rush, R8 Revolver | Crazy 8 and SG 553 | Dragon Tech. The collection has three Classified finishes, so the chance of getting the AK is one in three.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the AK-47 | Ice Coaled exists. Souvenir packages were never issued for this finish: they were made only for the tournament map collections. A souvenir copy can still be assembled by hand, though. The Souvenir-O-Matic puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on a regular skin from the inventory. That is why the occasional souvenir copy turns up even where no packages ever existed.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Ice Coaled

The gradient is cold, running from green to blue. Warm orange and red stickers therefore act as a contrasting accent on it, while green and blue ones blend into the paint. For a craft in CS2, Factory New offers a clean field: no sticker has to sit over scuffs.

Who this wear suits

Buying the AK-47 | Ice Coaled in this wear makes sense when:

• the green-and-blue gradient has to stay free of any trace of wear;


• you want the cheapest Classified AK in Factory New rather than one from the lower wears;


• you are picking a bright AK for the Terrorist side in CS2, and the price gap to Minimal Wear does not put you off.

The next wear on the scale, Minimal Wear, starts at 0.07. Factory New costs about three-quarters more than it.