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Message:: [QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 2362679, member: 19250"]First of all I never said anything  about cherry picking ...you did.I said if you FOUND A KEY would you pass it up because it wasn't  in a TPG slab from the top 4.The trouble with your generation  of collectors you rely  on PCGS,NGC, CAC, to make a call  , when you as a collector  should already know.When it comes to my money or coins I make the calls. If I'm  wrong  then I have only myself to blame. Not a TPG or a company who sells stickers.Most of us from my generation  fear not in buying a raw coin,because we know what we are doing.The reason we know is because we have been doing this for 40,50,60 years. We have established  libraries of books that we have read and also use for research.So to a YN or someone  who is just starting  in this hobby  I say this buy the book first and foremost . Next Read it! Ask questions  to those whom  will teach you the difference  between a smart buy and an in pulse  buy.And mostly we are human and believe  it  or not humans no how smart or how stupid  make mistakes.Learn from them...... and own them. Realize  that TPG and companies  who sell stickers are also human and subject to the same above. They can and do make mistakes![/QUOTE]