Who is the man: Hmmm, another mystery man at the top of a checklist. I'm going to say it's Carl Yastrzemski. It looks only vaguely like Yastrzemski, but he's got a coin right there at No. 58, so that's good enough for me.
Can ya dig it: This is one of the most interesting cards in the set to me, and it's been that way for a long time. This is a card checklist for a coin set. It's a cross-promotional checklist! I don't know if there have been other examples of this, but this fascinated me when I first saw it.
Right on: Clarence Gaston is the first coin the set. No Rose. No Robinson. Clarence Gaston. Tremendous.
You see this checklist is a bad mother: This set seems like a mother to complete. From what I've read, one coin was included in 10-card packs. I don't know if this was for all the series in the set or just later series. But with 153 coins to collect, that's asking you to buy a lot of packs.
Shut your mouth: I've never seen one of these coins live. I own 1964 Topps coins and 1987 coins, but nothing from '71. (Here's a look at bunch of them together).
No one understands him but his woman: Maybe my opinion would be different if I was a kid collecting in 1971, but I really don't care for collector coins.
(A word about the back): Coins of Duane Josephson, Joe Hague and Jerry McNertney. That's quite an inclusive coin set.
Topps cross promoted in their 1966 Topps set when they featured a checklist for their funny rings.
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Wow. That's pretty interesting. I didn't know any of that existed.
DeleteI should note that it was in their 1966 Topps Football Set. Not surprisingly, the card is pretty expensive as kids threw the card away.
DeleteI'm confused. #15 in 1966 was Vern Law.
ReplyDeleteThe 153-coin set was divided into 3 "series" of 51 each. (The first 51 had gold backs, the second had silver, the third blue.) I don't remember which coin series went with which card series but it was probably 1 or 2 card series for each coin series. Which like you said, made it really difficult to "collect 'em all"
ReplyDeleteAs for Gaston being coin #1, maybe they knew something about his future managerial greatness!
Getting the coins with the packs was always very special. I remember the different colors, but I don't think I knew what they meant.
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