So: Is the feeling that the current craze is based not just on overall scarcity of back but if the card in question happens to be the top graded or near the top graded? Hence that Chase going for so much despite "common" Old Mill back. In other words if, let's say, a PSA 5 Bill Bradley portrait with a Sovereign back happened to be highest graded, or only one higher, it might go for $300, not $100?
I wonder if going for "back scarcity" is based partly o boredom with so many collecting t206s for so long based on other criteria, or paying more attention to pop reports and feeling, yeah, they have a nice card but there are 29 out there better and maybe pure scarcity will rule the roost in the future? I would think that the combination is very tempting: the most "liquid" card issue plus going for scarcity. Could feel like less of a gamble and with more of a payoff....
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