1998 Pinnacle Mint Collection
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Anyone remember these? While sorting/organizing my collection I came across these. They were oversized packs containing 3 cards and 2 coins. Was a 30 card set. There were 30 solid gold coins to be had. Odds of 47,000-1. Don't know if anyone scored them though. Only bought 2 packs Got the common coins of Gwynn,Chipper Jones, Pettite,Tino Martinez.
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I have an 800 ct box somewhere of like 100+ packs that were opened from their outer shell but not opened on the inside cellophane. They're cool cards and boxes are tough to come by.
Arthur
How many of those solid gold coins (which IIRC were 1/1's and would be specially delivered to you via armored truck!) were actually claimed? And how many different variations of the coins did they do?
D's: 54S,53P,50P,49S,45D+S,44S,43D,41S,40D+S,39D+S,38D+S,37D+S,36S,35D+S,all 16-34's
Q's: 52S,47S,46S,40S,39S,38S,37D+S,36D+S,35D,34D,32D+S
74T: 37,38,47,151,193,241,435,570,610,654,655 97 Finest silver: 115,135,139,145,310
73T:31,55,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,80,152,165,189,213,235,237,257,341,344,377,379,390,422,433,453,480,497,545,554,563,580,606,613,630
95 Ultra GM Sets: Golden Prospects,HR Kings,On-Base Leaders,Power Plus,RBI Kings,Rising Stars
Back in 1997 Topps had to scrap its. Topps Mint release because of it, then redo it for 1998 as Stars and Steel
There were 8 types of coins
Brass
Nicle-Silver
Good Plates Brass
Then Artist Proofs of the 3above
500
250
100
Solid Silver
Solid Gold (1/1)
Also there were a couple players had Sample Coins
Then A hobby only Gems 6 card set that also had coins Brass only
My 4 coins were of the brass variety.
There was also a1997 set which has no Artist Proof coins
The Silvers were stamped Fine Silver on them also only 20 copies of them
The soild Golds (1/1) were redemptions as well as the 1998 were
The 98 Griffey Gold 1/1 showed up on Facebook a couple weeks ago..
ON ITS WAY TO NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658
I would love to get a solid gold 1/1!!
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
Hope ya picked it up
Not sure what years but I've seen some surface a few times before
Noticed a lot of activity for these on Ebay. Was surprised.
I bought a collection with a bunch of random items in it 5 years ago or so. There was an album with about 45 of the pinnacle mint baseball cards in there, and maybe 2 pages of hockey cards, along with some pages full of baseball, football, and hockey coins in the little squares. Almost all are the brass coins, a few are the nickel, and then this one Ivan Rodriguez gold plated. The album didn't factor at all into what I was willing to pay for the collection, and hadn't even looked at them since acquiring until I saw this thread. I'll have to look on eBay and see if any that I have are desirable.
^Should be worth a few $$$.
It was in someone's collection
ON ITS WAY TO NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658