Showing posts with label coins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coins. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
no. 161 - baseball coins checklist
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.
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