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J LevineI disagree a little bit with Julie on this one. This card was printed in a later series. There were at least 4 different printings of T205 cards and Joss was in one of the latter printings. To date, I have only seen Joss with two different back ads-- Piedmont 25 and Cycle. I have not confirmed it but I feel that it possibly comes with American Beauty backs as well.
The Joss was printed after April 14th, 1911 (the date of his passing).
I do think that the popularity is what is driving the scarcity. It is found with the Piedmont 25 back, the most common back. That does not mean though that the Piedmont 25 back was not printed more than once and he could have been replaced. I do think that it is as scarce as some of the other like Vaughn, Ford white cap, and Sweeney.
I think that Wagner, Karger, Wilhelm (both versions), Wallace no cap (both versions), and a few others are tougher to find.
Julie is correct, keep an eye on ebay and the national is sure to have a few.
Mine is about the same condition as Julie's but I do not have a current scan. Speaking of that...Julie, what about the back?
Joshua
PS Reminds me that I have to start collating my data for my t205 back report.