I think the only reason you saw them come out in the last couple of auctions is because some people were wanting to take advantage of the hype and make a little money. I do believe you will see them less often as most people will sit on them. I'm not sure of what the pop report for PSA (whatever it says, take one off as mine was crossed over to SGC) has, but SGC reflects only 11 Cycles out of 245 Mathewsons submitted. Compare that with the Wilhelm "suffered" version (Hassan & Cycle) which reflects only 13 (really should be 12 as I know of one that was submitted twice). You don't see the Wilhelm "suffered" come up that often and I would suspect you won't see the Mathewson Cycle that often either.
I think people were trying to play down the cycle variation to try and get it at a reasonable price without all the competition of other collectors. At least we now have a better idea of the going rate based on the last couple sold. It will be interesting to see in the next couple years where this card will fall on the scarcity scale of T205s.
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Frank
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