Random Card of the Day

These were in my wheelhouse as a collector. Loved going to 7-11 withmy friends, buying slurpees and pulling these from the bottom of the cup hoping you'd pull your favorite player (Mattingly in my case).

I had no idea these existed, but they apparently made a lot of them:

http://www.ericscards.com/coins/slurpee_baseball.html

No one has noticed yet????

A Seven-Eleven item is the RCOTD on 7/11!

And I have several from various years. I loved the discs and the Slurpees. I wish there was a 7-11 near me - it is free Slurpee day today!

Sorry, Billy,  According to the dictionary, you are correct.   But Topps has called their metal disks "coins" since 1964, it's even on the wrapper.  I agree that the 7-11 disks are not coins simply because there is no metal involved.

I think these "discs" are pretty neat and back in the 1980s and earlier I would go nuts for these oddballs, but in more recent years the whole "how do you store them" issue turns me away from them. I agree since they are not metal and not a currency they are NOT "Coins" (excepting of course the Topps definition as NJDevils pointed out). This particular set I am not a huge fan of simply because I am no longer a fan of the "flicking" 3-D things.

I'd say it's more of a disc or a pog than a coin. Having said that I think they're very nice.

Now I want those coins, and a Slurpee!!!

I think there's a 7/11 in Newburgh, Dan. I think I passed one on the way to MotorcyclePedia two weeks ago.

Am I reading it right that these were floating in the drink when you got it?

Billy, unfortunately, I work down in Westchester County, so no 7-11s in my normal travels. The discs (notice my terminology!) were underneath the cup bttom, secured by a piece of cardboard with a thumb tab cut out. Here, I did a little mock up in Paint:

That would be under the cup - these would not be floating in the Slurpee.

Also, notice on the back - printed right on it is the word "Coin", so please don't fault the collector's or those who put the checklist and set up here - simply following what is printed on the items!

I know, it just drives me nuts when people use the wrong terminology- especially when the card companies do it! 

Before I became a coin collector, I didn't know the difference, either.