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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1179477, member: 26302&quot;]Are you mainly trying to learn how to grade BU coins or all grades? For circulated grades I would use a photograde book and a couple of websites as examples and buy a bag of cents or nickels and start grading. Put them in piles for each grade, and then go back later pile by pile and see if you had errors or did you do a good job. Remember, every coin is unique, so no photograding book or no website photos will apply to every coin. Read the written descriptions as well aas look at the photos of the graded coins. Hands on is really the best way.</p><p><br /></p><p>For uncirculated coins, its harder because its so much harder to tell if you are doing it right. If you wanted a vacation, the ANA puts on summer seminars that teach BU grading, and sometimes large coin shows will have seminars on the topic. I am sure someone here knows a couple of websites that walk you through it, but like I said the hard part I had was telling if what I thought was a 63 was really a 63 or a 62 or 64. For BU grading I find it best to have experts help you. If none of these work, buy a bag of new cents or nickels and try to sort them out by BU grades, and then compare to pics of slabbed coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not to be a downer, but the other difficulty in grading US coins is the fact there are so many different grading standards. There is the ANA standards, but the market frequently nowadays uses PCGS or NGC standards, which are not the same as ANA, or even to each other sometimes. It will take many years and much patience before you can ever differentiate those differences, I know I cannot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope this helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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