The Nova | Green Apple (Factory New) is an Industrial Grade shotgun finish with a bold green-and-black color scheme applied to individual parts of the weapon. Factory New is the cleanest grade, where the green reads at its most vivid and the black sections stay deep.

Design

Green Apple gives the Nova a simple, punchy two-tone look: individual parts spray-painted in solid colors across a green-and-black scheme. It's a Valve-made finish, and it carries a tongue-in-cheek in-game line — "An apple a day keeps insurance premiums high."

Nova | Green Apple (Factory New) Float and Wear

This finish runs a float range of 0.00–0.30, and Factory New sits at the very bottom of it. The green stays bright, the black blocks stay solid, and there's no wear breaking up the two-tone panels. For anyone who wants the color scheme as bold as it gets, this is the grade to reach for.

Nova | Green Apple Rarity

Rarity: Industrial Grade — the light-blue tier, one step above the base Consumer level and near the bottom of the standard weapon grades. It's a common class, which keeps the finish widely available.

Nova | Green Apple Case and Collection

Green Apple is part of The Cobblestone Collection, which debuted with Operation Breakout in July 2014. There's no weapon case behind the regular finish — it's obtained through collection drops and trade-ups. Souvenir copies are a separate story, produced only in Major-tournament packages.

Nova | Green Apple Patterns

There's no random pattern roll on this finish — the green-and-black panels sit the same way on every copy, so there's no paint seed or "blue gem" to hunt. Wear and float are the only things that separate one copy from another.

StatTrak & Souvenir

This finish exists as both a regular version and a Souvenir version, but there's no StatTrak edition. The Souvenir copies were handed out in Major-tournament souvenir packages — first the ESL One Cologne 2014 Cobblestone package, then later Major souvenir packages across following events. The regular finish you'd buy here comes from collection drops and trade-ups instead.

Nova | Green Apple Price

Factory New sits at the top of this finish's short price ladder as the cleanest of its three grades, and it carries a premium relative to other Nova skins. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Is Factory New worth it over Minimal Wear?

If you want the green at its brightest and the black panels at their deepest, yes — Factory New shows the two-tone scheme flawlessly. The finish is capped at a low float, though, so even Minimal Wear looks close, and the price step is worth weighing against how much the extra polish matters to you.

What gloves go with the Nova Green Apple?

The green-and-black scheme suits a bold, high-contrast loadout. Green gloves lock straight into the base color, while black or dark gloves lean into the panels for a sharp, clean pairing. A pair with a splash of lime or acid green really makes the apple tone pop against the rest of your kit.

Does the paint seed change the Green Apple look?

No. It's a fixed design, so the green-and-black panels appear identically on every copy no matter the paint seed. There's no rare pattern or blue-gem variant to chase — only the wear grade and float value separate one copy from the next.

Nova | Green Apple (Factory New)

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