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1919 T213 Coupon Cigarettes Ty Cobb Type 3 Portrait PSA Mint 9....
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Finest known--population one of one!
1919 T213 Coupon Cigarettes Ty Cobb Type 3 Portrait PSA Mint 9. Like the legend it celebrates, this towering rarity of the sport's Dead Ball Era derives from the Deep South, hundreds of miles from the nearest Major League ballpark. Though the design is nearly identical to the famous T206 issue that remains a hobby mainstay over a century after its three-year span of distribution, the T213 was issued only in the State of Louisiana as a premium housed within packs of "Coupon Cigarettes. In order to provide some context for the supreme scarcity of the issue, we report that the full PSA population of all submissions of T213's numbers just north of 250. The T206, by comparison, approaches 180,000.Of those 250+ T213 submissions, only thirteen have garnered a Mint 9 rating (zero Gem Mint 10's). Presented is the only Ty Cobb to achieve that lofty mark. The image is brightly colored and perfectly registered, balanced between evenly sized borders and razor-sharp corners. Verso, featuring the "Type 3" advertising format, is equally fine.
Very limited initial distribution and the challenging environment of Louisiana's humid climate have served to make the T213 one of the scarcest entries in the Standard Catalog, and years can pass without a single opportunity at ownership. Few records in American sports are as safe as Cobb's career batting average of .366, but this offering's status as the sole Mint 9 representation is no more likely to fall.
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2015 July 30 - 31 Sports Collectibles Platinum Night Auction - Chicago #7145 (go to Auction Home page)
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July, 2015
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