Old box find...1980 USA Olympic Team Mini Pics Card set. Very Rare set with Herb Brooks Pop under 10
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I had a box that contained oddball 1980's sets(Drakes, True Value, Star Stickers etc...) that had survived four moves and several decades being basically untouched. I am now looking to clear space so I went through the box more thoroughly and in there was a very rare oddball set from 1980. It is the 1980 USA Olympic Team Mini Pics Hockey set featuring 15 players from the team and one scores card.
The set is very rare. There are no cards for sale on Ebay and no recent past sales on Ebay(at least from the words I used to search). There are less than ten graded cards of Herb Brooks(or any other player). Only a total of 133 cards have been graded by PSA from the entire set. Recently a PSA 5 Brooks & PSA 7 Strobel sold for $435 in an auction at VSA. So now with the value increase I am a little more intrigued with the set.
The rarity is really what is very intriguing me though, especially with Herb Brooks since he doesn't really have many cards. I actually like the cards too. They are smaller and they are sturdy.
The cards were loose in a standard white card box neatly nestled between bigger cards. I put them into sleeves and left them in there for the pics too as I most likely will get some graded. They are quite sharp. I did not look via magnification yet, but they look good.
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Awesome cards
Those are very cool and wonderful condition. That takes a guy back...