T206 sweet cap 150 factory 25 backs, Tougher than we think?

[frankbmd]

10 out of 576

[CMIZ5290]

Frank/phil- are you guys like me, just buying nice cards regardless of what the common back was? If so, this does appear to be a little interesting......

[tonyo]

15/519
fair/good/vg

[Tao_Moko]

I have 7 in my cubs set alone and that's out of 9 total with SC150 backs. I must be lucky.

[tonyo]

I once (a year or two ago) tried to determine the distribution of all backs relative to a 520 card set. (I was going to try to make my 520 mirror that distribution)

I used Bill Browns superset spreadsheet, Scot Readers data, the back multipliers from SCD and t206.org., and the list of toughest backs that were the subject of more than one thread.

I'm sure my method had faults, but regardless the target number I arrived at was 8/520 SC150-25's

Take that for what it's worth

[pgellis]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

Frank/phil- are you guys like me, just buying nice cards regardless of what the common back was? If so, this does appear to be a little interesting......

Yes, backs are not important to me, just looking for SGC50 or better, irregardless of back.

[CMIZ5290]

I hope ted will chime in......Based on just a few other member's stats, maybe it's not a coincidence.....

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

Frank/phil- are you guys like me, just buying nice cards regardless of what the common back was? If so, this does appear to be a little interesting......

Kevin,

No particular interest in backs, except to ultimately get an example of each. From a buying perspective with Sweet Caps they are the same to me. In reviewing my backs though, I have fewer examples of SC 350-460 Fact 25 and SC 350-460 Fact 30, than than the SC 150 Fact 25s.

In purchasing Sweet Caps, most sellers do not differentiate the backs and often it is difficult to know what you are getting, particularly if there is no back scan.

[Bocabirdman]

I have 11 out of 163. (Frank, I will update my Monter Number to 162.6 later). I actually look for Sweet Caps and Piedmonts to keep the price down.

[Vegas-guy]

I was curious so I just looked at my 35 cards and found 1..

[iwantitiwinit]

1 of 21

[teetwoohsix]

Out of 21 Sweet Caporal backed cards, I have 3 that are SC150/25:

[Runscott]

1 out of 18

As far as Jim having a high percentage, not too strange. I bought a large collection of Sweet Caps and a very high percentage of them were 649 OP's - it just depends on where the collection came from and when they were picked up.

[steve B]

Mine is

198 total T206

Sc 150 25 3
SC 150 30 5
SC 150 OP 2

SC 350 25 5
SC 350 30 34

SC 350-460 25 5
SC 350-460 30 4
SC 350-460 42 2
SC 350-460 42op 2

When I started I bought in an odd pattern for the time. I'd buy the less common backs over SC or piedmont. But I didn't pay much attention to the factory. And I still don't pay much attention to the factory aside from picking up the couple 150OP backs since I hadn't bought any till about a year ago.

Steve B

[E93]

Kevin,
Interesting question but I don't think the numbers are too shocking when we start analyzing by factory numbers. At that point there are 39 different backs so if one of them constitutes 2-3% that is more or less to be expected. Among Sweet Cap backs it may be on the tougher side.

I actually think the Sweet Cap 350-460 factory 42 no overstrike is the toughest Sweet Cap back, at least from my experience. When I started paying attention to factory numbers for my back run, I had ZERO examples of this back out of 600 T206s in my collection.
JimB