1980 Topps Coins

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Posted By: Al

These are weird. I have a set of 3..Jackson, Garvey and Carew...in tarnished silver or bronze, and one extra Jackson in "gold" = yellow. The yellow Jackson has a hole punched in it. The others do not. The pictures on the front are recognizable but poor and the back has bio info. Just test items ? Any distribution ? How many are out there in bronze, gold or silver. They arte listed in the big SCD Catalog

Also what are those weird 1980 Topps scratch off game cards... a little similar to the game cards that were inserts in the 1974 Topps Cloth Emblem packs but larger...4 1/2 by 2 1/2. Were they circulated with or in anything ? I have a bunch of them I got from Joe Sak

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Posted By: Randy Trierweiler

Hi Al, are the scratch offs the ones that came with the 1981 scratchoff set? The set with 3 (or 4?) players on each card? Randy

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Posted By: Fred Y

Acc to 2007 St Cat those are Test Coins issued in bronze, silver & gold, and some have a hole in the top. The 3 you have are the only ones listed.

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Posted By: Al

Randy...they have a 1980 Topps copyright on the front, which has 44 scratch of spaces in black with white background and a 10 inning scorebord...no player pictures. At the top front it says baseball scratch off in a red box. Back has instructions and a send away for a Topps super sport locker...card box. Did the 80s Supers have inserts ?. have both sets of those, gray and white, but not sure if there were pack inserts

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Posted By: Bob Lemke

I have a recollection that those 1980 scratch-offs were inserts in the Super Cello packs of 1980 Topps . . . the 28-card packs with the big hunk of bubblegum, issued only 1979-80.

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Posted By: Dave Hornish

Here is one: