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Message:: [QUOTE="JJK78, post: 1175675, member: 19207"]Anyone who thinks that most of these sets were not cherry picked is just nutz.  Why do you think many of the coins being sent out now are already slabbed?  Because they were cherry picking them to sell at higher prices, then the mint slapped them down.  It would not at all suprise me if the companies who have these coins already slabbed have been buying up raw coins on the secondary market then sending those coins to customers to fulfill their agreement with the mint, while keeping the high grade coins to sell later.  Otherwise they all would have lost money on the grading which even at their volume had to cost $30-50~ per coin. The set I got from APMEX was certainly the lowest quality while the Jack Hunt coins followed close behind.  Others were pretty nice and the set I got from AMARK which was PCGS slabbed BU had 1-2 coins which would have probably graded 68+ and PL.  But I think the nicest coins I got were from the companies like Fidelitrade who are not into the retail game.[/QUOTE]