Just how Rare are Vintage Cards (Like How much Rarer is a T212 vs T206)?

[that T206 Guy]

Originally Posted by x2drich2000

Using Cy Young (a top tier HOFer who is more likely to be graded than a common) as a sample, below are the PSA pop reports from several issues.

964 T206 portraits (all backs)
923 T206 glove showing (all backs)
870 T206 bare hand (all backs)
327 T205 (all backs)
102 T3
77 E93
62 E92 combined (52 Dockman, 2 Cocoa, 7 Candy (all colors), 1 E92 Nadja)
29 D304
24 E105 (a very high number for this set).

I'm sure if you did this for other players you would find a similar breakdown. So basically you are talking T206 are roughly 3x more common than T205, and around 12x more common than the easier caramel sets. This is for a specific player and if you wanted any card of any player, the T206 set being the largest would result in T206's being even more common as a type than these number indicate.

I am not saying graded.

Because like you said more popular and more valuable cards will be more likely to be graded.

If I type in T206 on ebay 8,939 cards come up but only 319 T212 come up.

That's a big difference.

And if I look at PWCC auctions sometimes he has a few hundred T206 and like 5 or less T212 (Often he doesn't have any T212).