I have a friend that works in a coin shop, and he told me there was a big deal made of it in 2008 among the aficionados that came into the shop. I never heard of it in the MSM. Maybe the trade papers for the genre might have mentioned it, but if you wern't buying Eagles why would you care? I'm sure that was the attitude of the NYT.
Wow. Thanks for the history on that important and meant-to-be obscure subject!