Organized t206 info in the American Tobacco Journal

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Originally Posted by G1911

As I understand it, the T3/T9 coupons were inserted in packs, for smokers to save and redeem. The Ledger refers to cabinets being in 500 count cartons (and it does so on other non-T206 pages, to cabinets that don't seem to correspond to any known set). I don't think this is a reference to the T3/T9 coupons as a result, they weren't in Sweet Cap or Sovereign as far as we know, and they would have been in normal packs, not 1 per 500 count carton. If they were a carton release like this, one had to smoke a fantastic number of cigarettes from brand's not mentioned on the cards or the coupons to get just one Turkey Red. There are no Sovereign prize fighter cards that this page references either.

T3 were issued with a tougher "No Redemption Back" variation where all mention of coupons and tobacco brands is absent. I think the cabinets mentioned could have been T3's intended for display or promotion at retailers given the larger 500 count box insertion? Maybe that was an initial limited release of them, followed by the coupon redemption for certain brands. Many of the poses are the same used in T206, in a way they are like "deluxe" T206's. Just a theory...