Posted By:
bcornellBryan -
I've often wondered why t204 wasn't more popular. I assume scarcity is the cause, although it's not as tough as, say, E90-3's, and sometimes it seems like everyone is pursuing that set. I bought a few t204's back in the late 80's and was shrewd enough (ahem) to hold on to them, so when I got back into collecting ~5 years ago, I picked up the cause again. Never thought that I'd accumulate 100 and I'm not sure I'd want to start that effort from scratch now, but it's a great set.
I'm going to hope that the $40K+ for the SGC 60 Johnson in Mastro was an aberration and that the card will come back down to 1/4 or 1/3 the price again. As Peter notes, there are no rarities (i.e., all 121 are the same difficulty), but there are a few (Pelty, Paskert, Morgan, et al) that do seem just slightly tougher.
Good luck.
Bill