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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1506219, member: 66&quot;]True Braddick did it with certified coins but people were attempting to collect &quot;Worst known&quot; types sets back before there were TPG&#039;s.&nbsp; The TPG added another &quot;demention&quot; to the problem.&nbsp; Before then many of the low end sets contained coins that were low because they had problems in addition to their wear.&nbsp; by going with the slabbed version you not only had the challenge of getting the very low grade coin, but also getting it problem free so that it would get into the slab.&nbsp; Take that 13-S in the OP.&nbsp; If that wasn&#039;t a key date it might not have gotten into that slab because it looks to me like it might be lightly cleaned.&nbsp; As a key it gets a pass.&nbsp; If it was a common it might not.&nbsp; Yes Barber &quot;slicks&quot; are common, but most of them look to me like they have been cleaned or wiped in order to be more legible.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Doug is right the TPG&#039;s had nothing to do with it.&nbsp; Braddick and others started collecting their low ball slabbed sets eleven years ago but the TPG&#039;s didn&#039;t start the Lowball Registries until just about four years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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