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Very attractive and really cheap unopened '80's box

BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Just purchased this 1987 Topps Coins unopened box for the princely sum of $16.50 (free shipping too). It's a great little box with nice colors and graphics featuring some great stars of the time (Mattingly, Clemens, Schmidt, Strawberry).

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Daniel

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  • robert67robert67 Posts: 1,347 ✭✭✭✭
  • EstilEstil Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭✭
    At 72 coins in the box and 48 in the set surely you should be able to make a whole set right? You don't see it very often but it's nice for it to at least be possible to get a set out of one box. image
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  • BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I just plan on keeping the box unopened. It makes a nice display piece as is. I know it will never be worth much judging by the low price you can get one for 25 years after it came out. I do remember back in '87 getting these in a store in Brooklyn and opening the packs. I'm sure I still have some of the coins.
    Daniel
  • mccardguy1mccardguy1 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭
    My dad always liked the Topps coins and I believe I bought him a complete set of these coins for Christmas when they came out. They were a factory set and were packed similar to a Milton Bradley-like game box (think a Monopoly box) if my memory serves me correctly. Nice pick up!
    I am on a budget and I am not afraid to use it!!
  • YogiBerraFanYogiBerraFan Posts: 2,390 ✭✭


    << <i>I do remember back in '87 getting these in a store in Brooklyn and opening the packs. I'm sure I still have some of the coins. >>



    That brings back memories. I use to buy those new in Brooklyn as well. Pinocchio's cards & comics was one of my favorite hangouts. After that I was off to L & B Spumoni Gardens.
  • BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yogi - Wow, Spumoni Gardens. I lived most of my Brooklyn life in Park Slope but did live on 83rd street in Bensonhurst for my last few years there.
    Daniel
  • mygottamygotta Posts: 1,652
    I have a complete set of those lying around somewhere. There is a McGwire in there as well I believe.
  • ReggieClevelandReggieCleveland Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've got two boxes of those. They're the only non-Canadian boxes I own. I bought them in an auction because they were so cheap. Now they're being used to weigh down the stack of wrappers I have in the hope of flattening them out.

    They were advertised as 1988 Topps coins but the copyright on the bottom of the boxes is 1987. Not sure which is accurate. There isn't a McGwire in 87 but I was kind of hoping they were 88 because there's a Greenwell in that set.
  • DodgerfanjohnDodgerfanjohn Posts: 491 ✭✭✭
    1987-1990.

    I just put together all four sets. Most are hella cheap on ebay. All years had boxes. I did a couple by set(literally like $4 shipped), and a couple I ordered the boxes. I forget what year it was, but I think the 1988-1990 sets are 60 coins and one of those...the box was just a ton of duplicates and I wound up having to buy about 10 of the coins individually.

    Anyway, they display really nice in those square cardboard coin holders inserted in coin pages. The whole run only takes up a 1 1/2" binder.

    No McGwire in 87. Both McGwire and Greenwell in 88.

    One of the coolest coins is the 1987 Reggie Jackson in Oakland A's uni.
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