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Posted By: brian p

Quite often I come in these posts late, but here's my long time collector ranked listing on the difficulty of completing caramel sets.

Easy (relatively speaking):

E95 (The most common)
E93
E96 (this set is not as common as some--heck, E90-1 is the most commonly seen caramel issue, but just try to complete it--but the lack of big name HOF cards keeps it reasonable)

Ones that are trickier, mostly because of more difficult cards:

E92 Dockman
E98

Lack of interest category:

E91A, E91B, E91C (doable sets, just not enough collector interest in them)


The next jump in completion difficulty:

E90-2 (because it is so small)


Sets that would be pretty darn tough to complete:

E90-3
E90-1 (because of the known tough and lesser known tough cards)
E94
E102 (because of the Wagner and Miller cards mentioned earlier)
E97


Sets that even a gung-ho collector is unlikely to ever complete, except with the help of some Mastro-esque five to six digit help:

E107 (is this one even possible?)
E105
E103
E99
E100

Ones that I just never paid much attention to, but would probably be extremely difficult to complete:

E92 (all types except for Dockman)
E104--never have cemented in my memory bank the differences between all the sets--these probably belong in above category


Pete on his Caramel site has some pretty interesting observations about the relative availability of caramel issues (which I mostly concur with), and it is interesting to see how his listing compares to our observations about set completeability here.

Brian

Brian