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The history of collecting is filled with stories of famous hoards, most prominently in the field of numismatics. Pick up a copy of the Red Book and there are pages recounting enormous hoards, often with thousands of rare coins found in one place. And all of them end the same way: the hobby absorbs all the material, and over time a stable price structure is achieved.

The same will happen with this find. While it is of course mind boggling in scope, all the cards will eventually find their way into collections and all will trade at some reasonably high value. Maybe an E98 Cobb will be a whole lot cheaper than an E93 Cobb, but it will still be valuable and there will still be a market for it. But you need patience. If you buy them you have to be prepared to put them away for a few years. As I said earlier, the dealers who buy these just to flip them the next day will have their hands full. This is a long term project.