Nova | Mandrel Price
CS2 heavy prices, float values & marketplace comparison
Also priced separately: Souvenir Mandrel
CSDB estimated value · Field-Tested
$0.01–$0.03
Best current price
$0.01
Buff163 · 75% below Steam
Lowest recorded ask, 31 Oct 2026 · verify on the marketplace
- 30D sales
- 3,023Steam
- Liquidity
- 80/100Very liquid
- Float range
- 0.15–0.38Field-Tested
- Listings
- 12,765tracked markets
- Markets quoting
- 8
Marketplace prices from the daily snapshot · updated
Marketplace Prices
Field-Tested · updated| Marketplace | Price | vs Steam | vs market median | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buff163Best priceReview | $0.01 | −75% | -50.0% | Search |
| HaloSkinsReview | $0.01 | −75% | -50.0% | Search |
| Youpin (UU) | $0.01 | −75% | -50.0% | Search |
| CSGO.com | $0.02 | −50% | 0.0% | Search |
| SkinBaron★ 4.4Review | $0.02 | −50% | 0.0% | Search |
| Skinport★ 4.9ReviewCode CSDB | $0.02 | −50% | 0.0% | Search |
| CSFloat★ 4.8Review | $0.03 | −25% | +50.0% | Open |
| DMarket★ 4.0Review | $0.04 | — | +100.0% | Search |
| Steam Community MarketWallet funds | $0.04 | — | — |
Each price is that marketplace's lowest listing for this exact wear and variant. Buyer fees, where a marketplace charges them, are on top.
Individual Listings
Field-Tested · CSFloatSee the actual items for sale — exact float, paint seed, stickers and screenshots — and how each is priced against the base value of this wear.
Price History
Field-Tested · CSDB daily cross-market lowest listing · 54 observations
Full Price History
Nova | Mandrel (Field-Tested) Steam price and trading volume since Sep 2018 — 298 days tracked.
Full price & volume history via SteamWebAPI · Steam Community Market.
Nova Mandrel Prices by Wear
| Wear | CSDB value | Best price | Steam | 30D sales | Markets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factory New | $0.03–$0.07 | $0.02 | $0.05 | 226 | 10 |
| Minimal Wear | $0.02–$0.04 | $0.01 | $0.04 | 1,830 | 9 |
| Field-Tested | $0.01–$0.03 | $0.01 | $0.04 | 3,023 | 8 |
| Well-Worn | $0.01–$0.03 | $0.01 | $0.04 | 281 | 8 |
| Battle-Scarred | $0.02–$0.06 | $0.01 | $0.05 | 280 | 11 |
CSDB value is an estimate from recorded sales and cleaned marketplace asks, shown as a range. "Best price" is the lowest listing that survived outlier checks. Where a wear has only a few asks and no recorded sales, CSDB shows the ask and declines to value it. Method
CSDB Market Score
Field-Tested- Liquidity803,023 sales in 30 days, 12,765 listings across tracked markets
- Demand6217% of Steam's open offers sold in 30 days
- Market depth938 marketplaces quoting, 12,765 listings
- Spread quality0300% between the cheapest and dearest cleaned ask
- Data confidence585 recorded sales in 30 days (Skinport) and current listings on 8 marketplaces
How easy this market is to trade in at a fair price — not a view on where the price is going. Subscores appear only where the inputs exist for this wear.
Market Statistics
Field-Tested- CSDB estimated value
- $0.01–$0.03medium confidence
- Lowest current listing
- $0.01
- Cash-market median ask
- $0.028 markets
- Median sale · 30D
- $0.025 sales · Skinport
- Steam price
- $0.04wallet funds
- Steam median sale · 30D
- $0.03wallet funds
- Steam sales · 7D
- 473
- Steam sales · 30D
- 3,023
- Steam sales · 90D
- 11,932
- Median time to sell
- 1 hoursSteam
- Active listings
- 12,765tracked markets
- Days to clear the book
- 172.9Steam offers at Steam sale rate
- Marketplaces quoting
- 8
- Cross-market spread
- 300%cleaned asks, Steam excluded
- Liquidity
- 80/100Very liquid
Only figures the data supports are listed — a missing row means the feed does not report it for this wear, not that it is zero. How these are measured
Recent Sales — What It Actually Sells For
Listed prices are asks; these are completed sales on Skinport over the last 7 and 30 days. The gap between the two is the real negotiating room.
| Wear | Sold (7d) | Median (7d) | Sold (30d) | Median (30d) | 30d range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factory New | 0 | — | 1 | $0.36 | $0.36–$0.36 |
| Minimal Wear | 0 | — | 2 | $0.04 | $0.04–$0.04 |
| Field-Tested | 1 | $0.02 | 5 | $0.02 | $0.02–$0.22 |
| Well-Worn | 0 | — | 0 | — | —–— |
| Battle-Scarred | 0 | — | 0 | — | —–— |
Sold-price data via Skinport, refreshed daily (as of 1 Nov). One marketplace's completed sales — a floor on truth, not the whole market.
Float Analysis
0.00–0.50| Wear | Floats this skin can roll | Share of its range | CSDB value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Factory New | 0.00–0.07 | 14% | $0.03–$0.07 |
| Minimal Wear | 0.07–0.15 | 16% | $0.02–$0.04 |
| Field-Tested | 0.15–0.38 | 46% | $0.01–$0.03 |
| Well-Worn | 0.38–0.45 | 14% | $0.01–$0.03 |
| Battle-Scarred | 0.45–0.50 | 10% | $0.02–$0.06 |
- Float premium within a wear:not published yet. Measuring it needs completed sales with their exact floats, and CSDB does not hold enough of those for this skin to separate a float premium from ordinary price noise. Load the individual listings above to see how each item's float sits within its wear.
Lowest Floats on the Market
Nova Mandrel Details
- Weapon
- Nova
- Finish
- Mandrel
- Rarity
- Consumer
- Category
- Heavy
- Collection
- The 2018 Nuke Collection
- First seen on market
- 29 Aug 2018
- Float range
- 0.00–0.50
- Paint index
- 785
- StatTrak™ available
- No
- Souvenir available
- Yes
- Unbox chance
- Not a case drop — it comes from The 2018 Nuke Collection.
- Heavy skins tracked
- 210
- Cheaper than 86% of Nova finishes, comparing each at its most affordable valued wear.
- #9 of 45 Nova finishes by Steam sales in the last 30 days (all wears).
Market Summary
Nova | Mandrel Field-Tested has a CSDB estimated market value of $0.01–$0.03 (medium confidence), with the cheapest tracked listing at $0.01 on Buff163. Steam lists it at $0.04, so the best cash price is 75% lower. This wear recorded 3,023 Steam sales in the past 30 days and scores 80/100 for liquidity. Across the wears CSDB can value, Nova | Mandrel spans about $0.01–$0.07.
Other Nova Skins
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More From The 2018 Nuke Collection
About Nova | Mandrel
The Nova's rock-bottom price tag makes it a great ambush weapon for a cash-strapped team. A grayscale hydrographic pattern of interweaving pipes has been applied. Shaping rounds with each shot— Official in-game description
Nova | Mandrel is a Consumer heavy finish from the The 2018 Nuke Collection, on the market since 2018. It has no StatTrak™ version, and as a Souvenir item from souvenir packages.
The Nova is a heavy in CS2 that costs $1,050 in-game.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How much is Nova | Mandrel worth?
- Nova | Mandrel is worth roughly $0.01–$0.07 depending on wear, on CSDB's estimate. Factory New: $0.03–$0.07; Minimal Wear: $0.02–$0.04; Field-Tested: $0.01–$0.03; Well-Worn: $0.01–$0.03; Battle-Scarred: $0.02–$0.06.
- What is the cheapest Nova | Mandrel?
- The cheapest tracked listing is Minimal Wear at $0.01 on Buff163, 75% below the Steam price of $0.04.
- What is the Factory New Nova | Mandrel price?
- Factory New Nova | Mandrel has a CSDB estimated value of $0.03–$0.07 (medium confidence); the cheapest tracked listing is $0.02 on Buff163, against $0.05 on Steam.
- What is the Minimal Wear Nova | Mandrel price?
- Minimal Wear Nova | Mandrel has a CSDB estimated value of $0.02–$0.04 (medium confidence); the cheapest tracked listing is $0.01 on Buff163, against $0.04 on Steam.
- What is the Field-Tested Nova | Mandrel price?
- Field-Tested Nova | Mandrel has a CSDB estimated value of $0.01–$0.03 (medium confidence); the cheapest tracked listing is $0.01 on Buff163, against $0.04 on Steam.
- What float can Nova | Mandrel have?
- Nova | Mandrel rolls floats from 0.00 to 0.50. Factory New 0.00–0.07, Minimal Wear 0.07–0.15, Field-Tested 0.15–0.38, Well-Worn 0.38–0.45, Battle-Scarred 0.45–0.50.
- How liquid is Nova | Mandrel?
- Field-Tested Nova | Mandrel scores 80/100 on CSDB's liquidity measure (very liquid): 3,023 recorded sales in 30 days, and 12,765 active listings across the marketplaces we track. Those are separate counts from separate venues, so they are scored as separate signals rather than divided into one another. Within Steam alone, where the sales and the open offers are the same population, the current book would take about 173 days to clear at that rate.
- When was Nova | Mandrel released?
- Nova | Mandrel first appeared on the Steam Community Market on 29 August 2018. That is its first market listing, which for most items is within a day of release.
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