I have been almost non existent in the card world the past couple weeks.It's not because I'm bored, or I'm in a funk or I don't have anything to write about but rather I'm in that awkward stage where I'm making almost as much money in my own business as I am working at the Vet's office. That means I'm seeing clients or drawing up protocols almost every day after I clock out of my 9-5, which leaves very little time for anything. It's great for me, cuz once I get a few bills paid then that means more money for cards! But first I have to see if it lasts, do I cut my hours at the vet? Do I keep them and keeping doing double days? What would you do for a klondike bar?
Enough about my own shit. One thing I have been very active in the past week is knocking off needs from my 1964 Topps Coins checklist! The only real game plan I had going into this was that I wanted to knock off the remaining five HOFer coins I needed, two of which are Mickey Mantles. Well, need them I do NO MORE!There are three Mantles total in the set, which has actually become a criteria for any future vintage projects that I start, only one Mantle per set. Luckily, the oddball/insert type vintage sets retail for much much less than any of the flagship sets do, so I was able to grab the portrait coin on the left for $26 and the All-Star coin for $20. That leaves me with only three HOF coins to get: Bob Gibson, Willie McCovey and Lou Brock. Unfortunately, the two biggest pieces to this set are still ungotten. There are two very short printed variations of Chuck Hinton and Wayne Causey in the All-Star subset. Hinton played for the Senators and Causey for the A's, but they each have an N.L. variation where the only difference is that they are listed as an NL All-Star on the back of the coin. Two copies recently went for $50+ and $60+ respectively. Those were for NM copies, but still, that's seriously cutting into my chocolate milk fund.
Hope everyone enjoys checking out this set because there's much more to come!
(...Joe)
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