These three pins were some of the most sought after generic hockey pins of the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. They are large pins displaying the bright colors of several nations' flags. Each pin also depicts a hockey player and each bears the official 2002 Winter Olympics logo. Each of the gold, silver and bronze pins had a limited production of 700, and each pin was individually and sequentially numbered. Thus, in the pictured set, each pin is numbered 150 out of 700 pins produced in the respective gold, silver and bronze versions.One flaw in these pins was the selection of the nations' flags that appear on the pins, which were not necessarily the flags of the nations that participated in either the men's or women's Olympic hockey tournaments. For instance, Belarus, Czech Republic, Finland, Latvia, Slovakia, Switzerland and the Ukraine participated in the men's tournament, but none of those nations' flags appear on the pins. Similarly, Finland and Kazakhstan participated in the women's hockey tournament, but neither of those nations' flags appear on the pins either. Meanwhile, neither Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, nor Japan participated in either the men's or women's hockey tournaments, but the flags of these countries do appear on each pin.
Each pin has a value of $15.00 USD, though I have seen each of these pins individually sell for up to $30.00 USD, and I have seen the set sell for up to $100.00 USD.
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