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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ksparrow, post: 7441337, member: 7638&quot;]My biggest regret is purchasing fairly expensive coins (for me that&#039;s over $500) without learning more about grading and how to judge surfaces.&nbsp; Selling my late father&#039;s coin collection around 2008, piqued my interest.&nbsp; I started buying &quot;BU&quot; coins from the big full page ad sellers in CoinWorld.&nbsp; I later found out that all of them were either dipped sliders, or cleaned. Next mistake was looking for raw &quot;bargains&quot; on eBay.&nbsp; You can probably guess how that turned out.&nbsp; And I won&#039;t go into the early Trade Dollar purchases...&nbsp; &nbsp; I had just enough knowledge, and money, to be dangerous.&nbsp; &nbsp; Fortunately, I discovered forums like this one and CU, learned about surfaces and grading, read books like Travers, and stuck with graded/holdered coins until I had learned enough. My avatar serves as a reminder; it&#039;s a straight graded NGC AU58 but now I know that it had a light cleaning/dipping and then album retoned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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