Please Show your Type 1 Red Cross (T215-1) & Coupons (T213-1)

[DixieBaseball]

Originally Posted by edhans

I'm a little surprised by the 6:1 ratio (by my rough count) of T213 to T215 so far in this thread. It's far from a scientific survey, of course, but given the recent hype of Coupon 1s, I would have considered their scarcity level more in line with that of the Red Crosses.

Ed - I am to blame a little here as I don't collect Red Crosses and I have dumped several Type 1 Coupon examples in the thread as this is what I collect and have done so for years. You are right... This thread is very far from scientific regarding ratios, so I would not read anything into what you are seeing....

Red Cross and Coupon Type 1's are both rare cards. Extremely difficult to find...

[DixieBaseball]

For comparison sake, there are about twice as many Pirate backs graded as there are Type 2 Red Cross and there are less Type 1 Red Cross than Type 2's, so that should give you an idea of how rare these rascals are...

Also, a little further data from some research I did last year... I can only document on average 3 graded examples of each player in the Coupon Type 1 set. (Keep in mind this is graded examples from PSA, SGC & BVG) I am sure some raw Type 1's exist, but to put futher perspective on this, imagine if you were wanting a T206 Red Cobb, and there were only 3 or 4 examples ever graded. They would simply rarely come available for sale and prices would be intense. (I think I remember Leon crowing about how cheap he got his Type 1 Coupon Red Cobb last year, and I agree....) Something further to consider... How many Red Cobb Ty Cobb backs are there graded ? Now, take a peek at how many Red Cobb Type 1 Coupon's that are graded. The numbers are very interesting....

[buymycards]

Just received this yesterday. Pretty rough but that's OK.

Rick