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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Caleb, post: 1940590, member: 32795&quot;]Grading coins is more of an art then anything else.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If it is your coin add one point, if you are trying to buy, subtract one point.&nbsp; Just kidding…..</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A good place to start learning about grading is on this website which they have a free app for your apple devices:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/Photograde/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/Photograde/" rel="nofollow"><u>http://www.pcgs.com/Photograde/</u></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Another suggestion when you get a basic understand of the differences of the series of your choice from the “Photograde” website, is to build a cheap grading set of all the different grades of coins from your preferred series.&nbsp; Just remember that a MS66 from PCGS will be different from a MS66 from NGC so I would recommend having the same company’s slabs in the grading set that you want to start your collection in.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A lot of it will be trial and error but don’t get discouraged, even the graders make mistakes all the time.&nbsp; We have sent coins into PCGS that came back AU58, not understand what they were calling wear, a simple crack out and resubmitting the coin on the next order only to have it come back MS64.&nbsp; We also have sent coins in that we thought would be AU53 – AU55 at best only because they were of a different die variety to have them come back MS63 and in one case came back MS65 (I’m still scratching my head over that one). </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The last thing I would add, take your time in understand the difference and have fun….[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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