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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Year: 1998

Set: Pinnacle Mint Collection (Rate)

Card: #11 Chipper Jones


“ Was never a fan of the Pinnacle Mint cards- the glaring hole is just not very impressive, and if you tried to put the coin in the hole, it just fell out because the cards were super thin and the coin- technically, a medal, as a coin is only something issued by a government with monetary value- was very thick. ” -Billy Kingsley

“ These cards were terrible. This is the base version with a large hole in the card. Other versions had bronze, silver, gold ext. coins in that place. So i'm you got the base version like this one, it was a BIG waste of space! ” -carthage44

“ I'm not familiar with this set, but why do all the cards pictured in our db have holes for coins, but the sample picture has a coin inserted? ” -CluelessJoe

“ Is that a relic, or an anti-black hole? I think if anyone was a Phillie killer, it was David Wright, but Chipper was a close second. ” -DarkSide830

“ Don't remember this Pinnacle set since it was when I was on hiatus (from about 1994 or 5 to 2002 or 3.) Looks like they planned on putting coins in/on them, or did and this is the bare bones base card. ” -captkirk42


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vrooomed

Posts: 14916
Joined: Dec 2012
Saturday, November 26, 2016 1:44 AM

For those unsure of the Pinnacle Mint sets and how they worked, each pack contained a few cards and a "coin" (yes, Billy, technically not a coin). There were several different levels of "coins" (bronze, silver. gold, others?) and then there were the cards, also different levels (base w/hole, bronze, silver, gold). The non-holed cards had a foil spot where the hole was on the base card. There was an equal number of cards and coins (each player had 1 of each), so if there were 30 cards in the set, there were 30 coins in the set as well. The hole was big enough to put a coin in. And in the hockey set, they seemed to fit pretty well. They did it 2 years in hockey.


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