Your 1 Favorite Collectible

[Balticfox]

My 1962 Shirriff Baseball Coin set:















They're special to me because I collected them as a kid after seeing this ad in the DC comics hitting newsstands in April 1962:





(Bag not mine.)

I didn't get very far with my collection as a kid because a bag of chips cost a whopping ten cents (a silver dime containing 0.0586 of a troy ounce of silver worth U.S.$2.97 today)! That plus the fact that there was at the same time a competing promotion in Hostess Potato Chips with a wildly colourful Aircraft Wheel free inside each bag. But I've now had the 200 coin set of the Shirriff Baseball Coins since 1990 or so.

If posting a whole set is cheating, then it's this unbroken sheet of 1962 Post Baseball cards with both Ernie Banks and Orlando Cepeda that came inside Canadian Sugar Crisp boxes!



Here's the cool ad for the above Post cards that ran in the Saturday comic sections of newspapers across Canada in April 1962: