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Eric BrehmLooking at the list of VCP sales figures for T206 Red Cobb PSA 3 posted above, I would bet that many if not most of the people who won those cards had the $700 SMR figure in mind when they were bidding. That got them in the ballpark. And maybe the ones that went for over $1000 were particularly nice for the grade, so bidders were willing to go a bit higher. As Red said, there are a multitude of factors that affect the price that gets paid: variations in card quality within grade, sales venue, bidder population, player and set popularity, general market conditions, etc. Glancing at that data, there is no obvious official 'accurate' price -- that is for an individual collector, or a person whose job it is to prepare a price guide like SMR or Beckett, to figure out.