I'm building the mini set too, down to only a few cards now. Here in California, they are everywhere. Some of the regions that got this test issue seem have gotten them in vastly different proportions. Can't trip over a dealer box at a show without finding a stack of Mini's in the Bay Area. Makes them pretty cheap to build here because they are available in such huge quantity.
My father collected them in 1975 in the San Francisco area, and reported he knew at the time that they were a regional issue and not so easy to get elsewhere. He got several boxes he kept unopened and says they were easier to find in his city than the regular size cards. Unfortunately, Dad forgot to do the part where he saved all his cards for his future son and he sold them all to purchase a stereo a few years later. Oops. He did keep some 1970 Topps Posters, but when we started to rebuild the 50's-70's sets in ~1999 together, we had to start over from scratch.
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