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Originally Posted by LWMM
This isn't a set I ever thought of as scarce, but, looking now, I can't find any Gomes available online. COMC lists only 88 of the 330 cards from U&H ... suggests that they were scarcer than golds /2007: In U&H 1st Editions were 1:36 instead of 1:4 for hobby, for example, and not issued in retail (where golds were 1:4). Just applying the hobby ratio (where 1st Editions were 9 times scarcer), and not accounting for the fact that they weren't issued in retail, and you get something like 223 1st Editions per player (i.e., 2007 divided by 9). That's just a ballpark figure, but it's considerably lower than I would have expected.
End result seems to be a surprisingly scarce card that doesn't seem to be generally recognized as such. And with prices starting at 47 cents on COMC, there's not much of an incentive for people to dig through their commons boxes and pull them out.
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I'm not familiar with this set or how it was packed, but 2004 1st edition was a separate release with ~1600 card print run. So fewer than gold. I think PSA pop reports reflect this and 2004 Yadi 1st edition sell for a premium over gold. I can't say what the print run is here, but I would guess it is lower than gold. That circle (1st) is necessarily something someone would notice when shuffling through cards.