To all,
To play Devil's advocate here, couldn't it be argued that if Burdick designated Coupons as T 206's that MORE of them would have survived to this day and that they wouldn't be so rare?
I mean, as it stands now, it seems, Coupons are mostly a regional issue that is mostly only collected by people in that area of the country. Leon just said he only has two Type 1's in his collection. As a small fish in this big pond, I have a Type 1 Engle and a Type 2 Needham and that is it as far as Coupons go in my collection (compared to 19 T 206's). So, it seems most collectors only have a few Coupons in their respective collections and that is as a type card.
After Hurricane Katrina, I read (probably on this board) that a big time Louisiana collector lost most or all of his collection to the storm and flood waters. Now, if Coupons had been designated T206's a long time ago, I am sure some of those cards would have been dispersed around the country (as would have other now lost cards) so that when tropical storms and hurricanes hit the Gulf Coast, not as many cards would have been concentrated in that geographical area and thus not as many would have been lost or destroyed.
With more of a dispersement and more known to exist, we would have a better idea as to how rare they really are. As it stands now, we can only guess. Which means these cards are going to be considered rare until a collector or two decides to auction off their hidden cards and they become more plentiful to the general collecting public. Or, on the flip side, another natural disaster or two hits that area and wipes out more cards and they become even more rare.
Just my thoughts,
David
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