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Posted By: tbob

I was one of the 3 buyers of the "Southern Find of Coupons". I eventually sold my near set of T213-3s to Bill Mastro and have always regretted it. I also sold him a ton of T213-2s. The price then was miniscule compared to today. Most cards were EXMT.
Two things about the T213-3s: many are factory cut shorter than T213-2s and thus occassionally they will not grade, rejected for "trimming" which is ridiculous. The 80+ year old man who owned the cards (around a thousand) had them since 1914 and 1919 when they were produced. They were NOT trimmed.
second regarding the overprinted T213-3s, we had probably 500 with 8-9 Cobbs (sigh) and of the 500 there were 3 overprinted backs: a Cobb which I had graded by SGC and sold on ebay a long time ago to a poster here, a McGraw which I have kept (only one) and one more, a common. Yes, I would say the overprints are rare.