Souvenir AK-47 | Gold Arabesque (Factory New)

The Souvenir AK-47 | Gold Arabesque in Factory New (FN) is a golden Covert rifle from a tournament Souvenir package, with golden stickers and a player autograph on the item. The float for this wear runs from 0.00 to 0.07, which is 10% of the finish's scale, and that scale ends at 0.70. The skin belongs to The 2021 Dust 2 Collection and has no regular case.

What the Souvenir AK-47 | Gold Arabesque looks like in Factory New

The receiver, top cover, gas block, magazine and barrel are finished in gold. The handguard and stock stay light, a flesh pink, with a dark lace ornament running across them: loops and curls woven into one continuous net. The same motif repeats as fine engraving on the gold of the magazine.

Valve writes of hand-painting on the stock and handguard and of gold metal with filigree. In Factory New the gold is even, and the ornament on the wood is not interrupted by a single scuff. The golden tournament stickers add to that, since in color they match the body.

Where the Souvenir AK-47 | Gold Arabesque came from

Valve drew the finish, and there is no Steam Workshop submission for it. It came out on September 21, 2021, together with The 2021 Dust 2 Collection, and Valve's catalog lists it as number 921. Souvenir copies arrive from tournament packages for the Dust II map. This finish has six such packages: Stockholm 2021, Antwerp 2022, Rio 2022, Shanghai 2024, Austin 2025 and Budapest 2025.

What to check before buying

Before paying for a Souvenir AK-47 | Gold Arabesque, check:

• the tournament, because the golden stickers and the autograph show which package the copy came out of;


• the float, since inside 0.00 to 0.07 the differences come down to hundredths;


• any name tag and stickers applied, which stay with the listing.

The artwork on the Souvenir AK-47 | Gold Arabesque is the same on every copy, and no rare copies exist. The stretch from 0.00 to 0.07 is short, so the difference between listings sinks into the margin of error.

What the Souvenir AK-47 | Gold Arabesque costs in Factory New

Each of the four remaining wears is cheaper:

• Minimal Wear is cheaper by about a third;


• Field-Tested is about 1.8 times cheaper;


• Well-Worn is cheaper by about half;


• Battle-Scarred is about 2.1 times cheaper.

On the Souvenir version the price falls together with wear, with no reversals. The regular version in Factory New is cheaper than the Souvenir one by about a sixth, which puts the markup for the golden stickers and autograph at around a fifth.

Among Covert AK-47s, the regular Gold Arabesque in this wear is third by price out of twenty-four. Only AK-47 | Fire Serpent and AK-47 | Wild Lotus cost more.

Getting the Souvenir AK-47 | Gold Arabesque

There is no regular case for the Souvenir AK-47 | Gold Arabesque. Copies come from Dust II Souvenir packages, for example the Stockholm 2021 Dust II Souvenir Package, and several packages contain the finish.

A trade-up contract does not hand out Souvenir items.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A Souvenir copy differs from a regular one by the golden tournament stickers and the player autograph, which sit on the item from the moment it leaves the package. They show which tournament package the copy came from. Souvenir items never come with StatTrak. The regular AK-47 | Gold Arabesque in this wear has its own page and costs less.

Stickers and craft on the Souvenir AK-47 | Gold Arabesque

The gold of the body and the golden tournament stickers keep to one palette, so the item looks of a piece. Other stickers argue with the ornament on the gold: dark ones work, while yellow and beige ones sink into the metal and the wood.

Who this wear suits

The Souvenir AK-47 | Gold Arabesque in this wear makes sense when:

• you want a Souvenir AK for CS2 with golden tournament stickers and a player autograph;


• the lace on the wood has to be free of any scuff;


• you do not need to choose by float, since on 0.00 to 0.07 the copies barely differ.

If Souvenir status is not needed, the regular version in the same wear is cheaper by about a sixth and looks the same.