Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction June 2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/25/2024
Hailing from a season in which the Hamilton Tiger-Cats knocked off the BC Lions for the 51st Grey Cup championship, the 1963 Canadian Football League season was the tenth (10th) in modern-day Canadian football, although it was officially the sixth (6th) Canadian Football League campaign. With average attendance exceeding 20,000 20,000 spectators per game for the first time in league history, offered here is this scarce and seldomly found near-complete set of the 1963 Nalley's CFL football coins. Featuring a total of 143 out of the 160 coins that make up a complete set and missing only those of 11-Philip, 19-Stoneburgh, 20-Beck, 54-Goldston, 71-Trimble, 72-Leblanc, 73-Schnell, 74-Crain, 75-Dalatri, 106-Smith, 112-Volcan SP, 115-Frechette, 117-Kruger, 118-Petersen, 120-Ording, 133-Jokanovich SP and 136-Crawford for completion, the group does include various different back variations throughout including Nalley's Potato Chips, Hunter's Potato Chips, Krun-Chee Potato Chips, and Humpty Dumpty Potato Chips as well as no company name "anonymous" backs that are english only and "anonymous" backs that are bilingual. In total, there were eight teams represented with 20 coins per team: Toronto Argonauts (1-20), Ottawa Roughriders (21-40), Hamilton Tiger Cats (41-60), Montreal Alouettes (61-80), Winnipeg Blue Bomber (81-100), Edmonton Eskimos (101-120), Calgary Stampeders (121-140), and British Columbia Lions (141-160). Including better and more sought after coins of players including 1-Parker (small image scratches and light surface wear), 2-Shatto (small image scratches and light surface wear), 21-Jackson (small image scratches and light surface wear - insert raised up from plastic holder at bottom edge), 23-Thelen (insert raised up from plastic holder at top edge), 41-Faloney (small surface scratches), 44-Patterson, 48-Barrow (light surface wear), 52-Cosentino (insert raised up), 57-Sutherin (surface scratches and light wear to edge of plastic holder), 62-Dixon (light surface wear), 67-Luster (off-center), 81-Lewis, 82-Ploen (surface wear and scratches), 92-Gray, 100-Grant, 101-Keys (light insert warping), 105-Coffey (slightly off-center - shallow crack at top edge of plastic holder), 108-Bright (minor surface scratches), 109-Getty, 124-Harris (slightly off-center), 126-Luzzi, 134-Keeling, 142-Fleming (surface/edge stain, small scratches), 144-Fieldgate and 145-Kapp (small surface scuff). Additionally, unless noted above, the colourful plastic holders for the inserted images remain in good condition, showing varying degrees of scratches that range from light to moderate mostly with a couple of heavily scratched ones also observed. Moving on, for the desirable short=printed coins, included are notables such as 13-Morris (faded plastic holder and foggy reverse), 14-Wirkowski (insert image wrinkled and creased with surface scratches), 17-Patrick (small image scratches and light surface wear), 59-Viti (warped insert), 60-Mosca (light insert warping and surface scratch at the right side), 79-Learn (light surface wear) and 80-Poliziani (light surface wear and scratches). Of note, most of the plastic inserts of the short printed holders are faded with some showing light wear to the edges. With the rest of the coins throughout seen as being in mostly good condition and largely just showing the same levels of flaws as listed above, don't miss out on this for your all-important vintage gridiron collection!
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