And if you don't feel qualified to do so, start reading and studying and scouring for all the information you can AND READ BETWEEN THE LINES of auction descriptions and dealer descriptions and try to sell a few of those coins back and you will beging to see more of what the truth is all about.

You'll begin to discern what is important to you and what compares to the market in terms of buying and whether this matches up or is a mis-match.

The time will come where you will realize that you may very well know more than your dealer, then the dealer intimidation, bending of the truth for their self serving ways, consioucly or unconciously, wiy ll become more self evident.

That throws you in a whole new persepctive.

You still have a lot to learn, there is ALWAYS something to learn. But don't ever think for a moment, that just because someone is a dealer, especially a well known dealer, don't let them intimidate you into short-changing you're own self confidence and your own knowledge.

And the time will come where you may very well find out that they indeed, did know more than you did about a given coin, just as you will find out they don't know dittly squat about other coins as well.

When you begin to be strong enough to evade the illusion of a TPG, and learn to grade coins yourself, and see the insconsistencies of the TPGs, you will find that you are not just buying the coin and not the holder, but that assigned grade becomes irrellevant to you.

And the teaching can go both ways, becausethere are so many different factors in evaluating a coin, particularly for the purposes which suite you and you alone. And it would also be estute of you to figure into this equation, the marketablity of your coins in both the near future and distant future, unless you want them buried with you.

A smart dealer, who knows what he is talking about, and proves it over and over again with quality coins in his inventory, is someone you can really learn from...IF they are willing to give.

And believe me, that is not hard to find.

I've learned tremendous things from dealers that I've never even bought a coin from.

So the bottom line is again my proverbial question why.

Answer those questions to yourself, why this and why that, and come up with answers and more likely you will find that you've had better control of your choice and that your choice will be a better one than if you just looked at a coin and said 'it's pretty' or 'it will fill a hole', or that's the date that I want, when date only has siginificance in choosing a coin if it tells you what to look for in that years minting process, ahd whether it's rarity, scarcity AND need within your collection actually holds real meaning.