1962 Shirriff/Salada Canadian Baseball Set of 200 High Grade Coins/Pins/Buttons

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Check out my E-Bay Store for High Grade Vintage Baseball Coins and Pins!Up for auction is a 1962 Shirriff Potato Chip Baseball Coin Set of 200 different coins.This Very Rare Set is a Canadian version of the Salada Junket plastic player coins issued in the U.S. Backs specify an issue of 200 coins; 21 players from the Salada set were not issued by Shirriff. Because the Canadian coins were produced after the U.S. version they are not found with all the variations known in Salada. Shirriff coins were packed in bags of potato chips, with each coin sealed in a clear cellophane wrapper. The Canadian coins are much scarcer than the U.S Salada coin because of only one print run compared to two print runs of the Salada coins.When is the last time you came across a complete 1962 Shirriff Baseball set? I have only seen a handful of Shirriff Baseball coins for sale on E-Bay over the past year. I purchased this Shirriff set from a collector that took him over ten years to complete.The 2015 Beckett Catalog of Baseball Cards has this set listed at $2,000Just last year, Two PSA graded Shirriff coins sold for Record Prices in the Andy Madec Spring Auction:1962 Shirriff Coins #41 Mickey Mantle PSA 9 Mint sold for $7251962 Shirriff Coins #150 Roberto Clemente PSA 10 Gem Mint sold for $1,715The coins in this sharp-looking set grades in Near Mint condition. This extremely attractive full-color coin set was issued one plastic-with-paper-insert coin per package with Shirriff Potato Chips. The set features all the major stars of the era including Mantle, Mays, Kaline, Berra, Clemente, Koufax, Banks, Yastrzemski and many more.In 1962, Salada Tea and Shirriff Potato Chips promoted their products by issuing a set of plastic backed baseball coins with paper inserts. The idea behind the set was simple, while at the same time elaborate - each of the then 18 Major League teams would have 10 players represented, one for each of the eight fielding positions plus two pitchers. This made for the 180 coin set that was originally produced.However, midway through production, the National League expanded by adding two teams - the New York Mets and the Houston Colt .45's. Salada/Shirriff then shifted gears and updated their entire set to reflect the resultant changes. Many new players were added, some were traded and some were dropped.The 1962 end-product was a set of numbered coins that totaled 221 different players and made up a 180 player original set and a 200 player revised set. The Shirriff coins were only issued in the revised set.Please email me with any questions. Buyer pays a fixed shipping cost of $10. Insurance included. Will ship to anywhere in the US and Canada only.Thanks for looking and Good Luck on a truly one-of-a-kind piece of memorabilia.The following coins are up for sale:Coin # Player1 Jim Gentile3 Chico Fernandez5 Woody Held7 Ken Aspromonte8 Whitey Ford9 Jim Lemon10 Billy Klaus12 Nellie Fox13 Jim Bunning14 Frank Malzone15 Tito Francona16 Bobby Del Greco17 Steve Bilko19 Earl Battey20 Chuck Cottier21 Willie Tasby22 Bob Allison23 Roger Maris24 Earl Averill25 Jerry Lumpe27 Carl Yastrzemski28 Rocky Colavito29 Al Smith31 Dick Howser32 Jim Perry33 Yogi Berra34 Ken Hamlin35 Dale Long36 Harmon Killebrew37 Dick Brown38 Gary Geiger39 Minnie Minoso40 Brooks Robinson41 Mickey Mantle42 Bennie Daniels43 Billy Martin44 Vic Power45 Joe Pignatano46 Ryne Duren47 Pete Runnels48 Dick Williams49 Jim Landis50 Steve Boros51 Zoilo Versalles52 Johnny Temple53 Jackie Brandt54 Joe McClain55 Sherman Lollar56 Gene Stephens57 Leon Wagner58 Frank Lary59 Bill Skowron61 Willie Kirkland62 Leo Posa... read more

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