In May 2017, 7 artists launched Curio Cards - a 30-piece digital art collection, roughly $1 apiece.
It wasn’t just another drop. This was the first art NFT project on Ethereum, years before NFTs were cool, even predating CryptoPunks.
Among them was Card 17, UASF - a cartoon bulldog dipping its paw in a pool.
Cute, forgotten… until a contract error created an accidental duplicate: 17b, later dubbed the “Misprint Card.”
For years, collectors ignored the whole set. Then history flipped.
In 2021, Christie’s auctioned a complete Curio set - misprint included - for 393
$ETH (~$1.27M).
What started as cheap digital art became one of the most historic NFT collections ever. A glitch turned into grail status.
Today, Exiled DeGods are in that same place: born from a minting mishap, overlooked by most, but destined to be remembered as artifacts of culture.
17b is one of the most prized Curio Cards, because of its unique history.
Dubbed the "Misprint Card," 17b came from an incorrectly deployed contract, which collectors still minted.
This duplicate was an uncanny coincidence, because the art is about forking Bitcoin in 2017.