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Dan P.I completed a 1963 set in the pre-graded era (late 70's/early 80's). At the same time I was working to complete all the sets I collected as a kid (1960-64). At one of the card shops I frequented, the owner was a bonehead. When he purched a large volume of cards for inventory he'd get people to help sort the cards into the groups for display (Phillies/Phila. A's binder, Mets/Yankees/N.Y. Giants/Brooklyn Dodgers binder, binder with stars of all other teams, display case for expensive cards, and boxes with commons organized by year). The dealer understood the concept of high numbers and would pull the common high numbers for the stars binder but he never verified that his helpers would do the same. As a result, I found many 1963 high numbers ($4-$6 at that time) in with the low number commons (25 cents to 50 cents at that time). I bought as many high numbers from all of those years as I could without tipping him off to what I was doing.