I might take this course. Has anyone else on this forum done it? What did you think about it? Charlie
It's okay. There's nothing wrong with the course itself, it's the notion that coin collectors can learn 11 point grading that, IMO, is flawed--with courses or any other way. You can never know whether your grading a slab the same way graders do because all you get on the slab is a digit and no information as to what comprises that digit. Even if you come out with the same grade as what's on the slab, how do you know you didn't give too much weight to one factor and not enough to another and it washed? In other words there is no feedback and so there is no learning. Except for dependency on the TPGs. IMO, the ANA's Counterfeit Detection course, with the video, is far more useful. Also Larson's Numismatic Forgery is a first rate book. But you have to know the minting process first in order to understand the book. TPG's have been telling us for 20 years now to look at lots of slabs to learn and understand market grading. If they really wanted that, why don't they allow us to aquire feedback from the slab "Nothing is as it seems." Al Pacino--The Recruit
I think the course is $69.95. I would probably take the one on grading circulated coins and if I liked it I would take the one on grading mint state coins.
