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Message:: [QUOTE="BustCoinageDude, post: 1013258, member: 12004"]The best thing you can do as a new collector is taking a correspondence grading course from a major numismatic organization and get yourself grading books like Photograde and the PCGS guide to grading. Grading takes a long time to master, it takes looking at thousands of coins over a long time. Grading is a professional opinion and is only as good as the reputation of the organization rendering it. In the end, even the best services make mistakes, but the big four make the fewest compared to the self slabbers using airtites and capital holders with self generated labels.  I stick with PCGS, NGC/NCS, ANACS, and ICG. I stay away from SEGS, Accugrade, and PCI. That's just my personal preference based on seeing thousands of coins in their holders.  But in the end, you have to decide for yourself, educate yourself with the above referenced books and take a course.[/QUOTE]