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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3025516, member: 112&quot;]ANA classes would be great, best if you can take them in person of course but you can also take their correspondence courses. But I&#039;d start with books if I were you. These 3 in particular - </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Official-Standards-American-Numismatic-Association/dp/0794838243/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1521218445&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ana+grading+standards+for+united+states+coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Official-Standards-American-Numismatic-Association/dp/0794838243/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1521218445&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ana+grading+standards+for+united+states+coins" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Official-Standards-American-Numismatic-Association/dp/0794838243/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1521218445&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=ana+grading+standards+for+united+states+coins</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Official-Guide-Grading-Counterfeit-Detection/dp/0375720502/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1521218586&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=coin+grading+and+counterfeit+detection" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Official-Guide-Grading-Counterfeit-Detection/dp/0375720502/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1521218586&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=coin+grading+and+counterfeit+detection" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Official-Guide-Grading-Counterfeit-Detection/dp/0375720502/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1521218586&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=coin+grading+and+counterfeit+detection</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coingrading.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coingrading.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coingrading.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The 3rd one is free, available right there on the website. Or you can buy a copy. </p><p><br /></p><p>Get all 3, read, learn, study - everything they say. Spend as much time as you can reading right here on the forum, keeping in mind that not everything everyone says is valid or true. You&#039;ll learn soon enough who listen to, and who not.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s just the beginning, it gets you started. You&#039;ll have to look at tens of thousands of coins, in hand - just to learn how to grade that 1 coin. You&#039;ll get out of it what you put into it. I&#039;ve been studying, learning, and writing about coins since 1960 - and guess what, I&#039;m still learning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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