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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tmoneyeagles, post: 592947, member: 17557&quot;]Well, to some extent yes</p><p>Without mistakes, you can never really learn anything</p><p>I believe that you just have to keep practicing, when it comes to grading</p><p>Looks at coins carefully, and ALWAYS compare.</p><p>Finding the nice coins, raw, is tricky, because half the people buying think they will pay MS62 money, and get it graded, and make a profit, but then it comes back AU55??? It is because they don&#039;t know what to look for when grading a coin, and if they did, they were dumb, to buy one RAW, they were hoping off flipping, online.</p><p>A lot of gold coins, are dangerous to buy online, simply because they are hard to grade when not in hand, and I guess that goes for any coin really.</p><p>Taking Incused Indians, as an example. These coins are extremely hard to grade, and sometimes TPG mess up, I&#039;d personally never buy one raw, and don&#039;t understand, why people who are thinking of flipping do either, without seeing in hand. Over the internet, you can&#039;t see certain marks on the coin, due to the seller, who might have edited the photo, making an AU, look more like a MS65. Also, cleaning is hard to detect as well, a lot of sellers enhance the images on the coins, and change the colors around, so you really can&#039;t tell.</p><p>I say sometimes, you have to get bitten on the butt, to learn!</p><p>Grading will always be difficult and there is no easy way to do it, or learn it, just practice, practice, practice, and get a grading book, or a guide to the specific coin, that you collect[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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