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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 69288, member: 1886&quot;]It&#039;s okay. There&#039;s nothing wrong with the course itself, it&#039;s the notion that coin collectors can learn 11 point grading that, IMO, is flawed--with courses or any other way.&nbsp; You can never know whether your grading a slab the same way&nbsp; 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&nbsp; out with the same grade as what&#039;s on the slab, how do you know you didn&#039;t give too much weight to one factor and not enough to another and it washed? In other words there is no feedback&nbsp; and so there is no learning. Except for dependency on the TPGs.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>IMO,&nbsp; the ANA&#039;s Counterfeit Detection course, with the video, is far more useful. Also&nbsp; Larson&#039;s Numismatic Forgery is a first rate book. But you have to know the minting process first in order to understand the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>TPG&#039;s have been telling us for 20 years now to look at lots of&nbsp; slabs to learn and understand market grading.&nbsp; If they really wanted that, why don&#039;t they allow us to aquire feedback from the slab <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Nothing is as it seems.&quot;</p><p>Al Pacino--The Recruit[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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