Toughest Topps Baseball Issues 1981-2006

Sorry 1980 Coins The Original Presentation Board that I have

[Blackless Collector]

Originally Posted by rgpete

Sorry 1980 Coins

Nice Coins!!

[savedfrommyspokes]

While this 2006 Topps blue parallel set is numbered to 10, it really should be numbered to one as Topps sent out only one of these ten sets.

I don't collect many modern cards at all, but I picked up this card years ago in the auction mentioned in the link below...even to this day I have yet to see any copies from this set not numbered 7/10, so I guess none of the other sets were snuck out of Topps' back door. I wonder what Topps did with the other 9 sets?


Here is what the recipient of the 7/10 set tells about the set in a listing.


https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...0-145-only-one

[ALR-bishop]

Neat item. Mark me down as one of the previously clueless collectors

[Wite3]

1980 Topps Pepsi has to be up there in difficulty for the prototype sets.

[toppcat]

Originally Posted by Wite3

1980 Topps Pepsi has to be up there in difficulty for the prototype sets.

Oooooh, yes indeed.

[philliesphan]

Joshua-

I've got this one, and I believe that Bob has a different version of the same:

[jacksoncoupage]

Originally Posted by savedfrommyspokes

I guess none of the other sets were snuck out of Topps' back door.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...0-145-only-one

I have a 2004 Topps Updates Brad Fullmer in my Fullmer PC, which is unnumbered. Same colored border. Have yet to see another of him.

Originally Posted by Blackless Collector

Nice Coins!!

That is the original Presentation Board for the 1980 Prototype Coins that I bought at a Flea Market in NJ

[JustinD]

I would think 1998 Topps SportsCubz has to be way high. Not sure if a current set exists, the only one possible was broken up as I remember.

1985 minis have always been a favorite of mine. Tan blanks would be crazy hard to build a set of as there were only 3 sheets found from my understanding, the white backs are way more common. The red only version is also likely a single sheet.

The full size 1985 Fuch and Acme proofs are not known to exist in quantity to make a set so it is impossible. Those came to auction in 2015. I have examples, but the only currently for sale is priced at a crazy 10k on eBay.

[ALR-bishop]

I bought one of the Sportcubz when the set was broken up. Even as an unissued test set I would guess more than one sheet was produced but not aware of others surfacing

My 85 Mini blank back set is a mix of tan and white but agree tans seem rare. I have about 1/2 the set in red back but got most from a single seller and have only seen a couple on eBay since. I also have a couple with smeared backs

[Jim65]

1992 Topps Round Trippers, unreleased, there seems to be 1 or 2 of each player out there.

1997 Topps Pro Shooters marbles, I read they had a very limited release only in eastern Canada but who knows. Not rare but can be tough to find certain players.

[toppcat]

I think there are 2 SportsCubz sets out there and then various parts of a couple more, not positive but believe that was the case awhile ago. I am still getting up to speed on some of this stuff, even just for my own cataloguing purposes so thanks to all weighing in.

Happily I own a Round Tripper and have a also marble and checklist, which are easier by quite a bit (especially the marbles) but the checklist is very tough in top condition (I strive more toward Ex or Ex-Mt stuff). My RT and Marble are Mets, as is my Sportscube; I try to collect Mets team sets or singles where I can with the really rare stuff. I need a couple more Mets marbles I believe (or have I lost mine?!). It's so hard to track some of these without the old Standard Catalog or Beckett Almanacs still being published.