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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JPeace$, post: 3336578, member: 42727&quot;]Okay.&nbsp; Let me explain a little further.&nbsp; Forgive me if you already know this.&nbsp; Coins are basically broken up into 3 main grading categories: circulated, about uncirculated and uncirculated.&nbsp; Numerically, the scale is from 1-70.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins you posted clearly fall into the circulated category.&nbsp; Grading starts at Poor and continues to XF (Extra Fine).&nbsp; The numeric scale is 1-45.</p><p><br /></p><p>About Uncirculated (AU) has a numeric scale from 50-58.&nbsp; So you&#039;ll see a coin graded AU50, AU53, AU55 or AU58.&nbsp; Why the scale jumps from 45 (last circulated numeric grade) to 50 (1st about uncirculated grade)?&nbsp; I can&#039;t explain it.&nbsp; Maybe someone else will jump in and give their thoughts on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there is Uncirculated.&nbsp; The grade starts at MS60 (Mint State) and continues to MS70 (perfection if you will).&nbsp; For Uncirculated coins (MS), the scale increases by 1 in this grading area.&nbsp; So 60, 61, 62.....69,70.&nbsp; Now the industry is adding a &quot;+&quot; to the MS grades to define/slice it even further.&nbsp; For example, MS65, MS65+, MS66.&nbsp; Some people like this, others don&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>So at a very basic level, that&#039;s the grading scale.&nbsp; It&#039;s also one of the most widely debated areas of this hobby.&nbsp; There are so many more nuances to it than I described, but I wanted to give you the fundamentals.&nbsp; There&#039;s a world more to learn about the grading scale and actually how to grade a coin.&nbsp; IMO, if you can&#039;t grade a coin properly, this is a very dangerous hobby to participate in from a monetary perspective.</p><p><br /></p><p>Everything I&#039;ve described above is &quot;straight grading&quot;.&nbsp; There is another side of it in which a coin cannot be &quot;graded&quot; because there&#039;s something wrong with the coin.&nbsp; It&#039;s been cleaned (mentioned by someone in the thread), it&#039;s been scratched, it&#039;s been tooled, it&#039;s been artificially toned and a host of other issues that would take too long to describe.&nbsp; Let&#039;s just say there&#039;s a lot to learn about this hobby.&nbsp; The more you participate, the more you learn and the more fun the hobby is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope that helped a little.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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