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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1774734, member: 112"]Yeah, sometimes that true. But it's also sometimes true that it is an honest dealer giving an accurate description for a common coin.   Well, that can vary greatly depending not only on date/mint but by denomination as well. Pick any given coin, say it is in average circulated condition, and anybody who knows coins will know immediately know what that coin looks like. The key there is that you have to know coins, it's an experience thing in other words. Now I realize that doesn't help you but I really don't know any other way to explain it. It's just like it is with grading. If I tell you that I have a 1935-S Lincoln in MS66 do you know what that coin is going to look like ? Maybe you don't, but I do, without ever seeing the coin. And so does anybody else who knows coins. It's an experience thing. You pick any given coin, tell me the date, mint, and denomination, and say that it is in average circulated condition, and I will tell you the approximate grade of the coin and what it looks like - without ever seeing the coin. But to do that for every coin, any coin, so that you could understand what it means for every coin would require a book's worth of writing.[/QUOTE]