A Troubling Hobby Developement

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

Here's a question I've asked in the past, but never really understood the answer to.

As I understand it, the T206 issue and the T213 (at least T213-1 and 2) issues are printed on similar stock, at a similar time in history.

If you review the pop reports, here's what you'll see:

GRADE T213 T206
1-2 62% of total 13% of total
3-4 34% of total 44% of total
5 3% of total 20% of total
6 .3% of total 9% of total
7 none graded 5% of total
8 .1% of total 2% of total
9 none graded .3% of total
10 none graded .01% of total

Some may say this post belongs in this thread, others may say it doesn't. I'm unsure. But it would be great if someone could offer me a strong explanation as to why it is that you have two strikingly similar issues - one happens to be the most popular pre-war set, and one is not - and a radically different percentage breakdown in the grades for each, with the higher grades more prevalent in the most popular set.

Any ideas?

-Al