Another question to consider is that, if you had not already told us that the SSN's are not blacked out, would any of us have expected them to be visible if offered a player's signed W-2 form? As several others have said, it's common knowledge that contracts are often available with the SSN showing, so a collector might be disappointed or less enthusiastic about obtaining one that had it blacked out, assuming that it was some collector who had done it rather than the player or whoever in the club handled the old contract documents.
In this case though, if the collector had never seen any players' W-2 forms offered, would they know that it was ever available with the SSN showing, or just assume that it was blacked out when the document was released to the general collecting public? In other words, if they're not expecting to see the SSN still visible, how would that have any effect on its value to a collector?
Maybe I'm wrong and there's some sort of W-2 Collecting Community that I'm not aware of. Just offering a little more food for thought on the subject.
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