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Seth B.Richard, I think you're right that the population numbers are on line with e-bay's auctions, but to a point. I certainly wouldn't say that there are 200 T206s for every E90-1 out there (right?), but popularity really drives the market and leads to more T206s crossing hands.
What this means though is that e-bay is tailored to the beginning collector (who has just recently become enticed by the t206 challenge) as opposed to the advanced collector (who has to flip through four pages of t206s to find any interesting rarer issues on e-bay). Is that a fair statement, and is that a recent trend? I've only been buying non-t206s for a short while, and I've seemed to notice that recently, there's slim picking son e-bay and I'm turning towards auctions instead.