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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2338052, member: 24314&quot;]My turn, my turn.&nbsp; Experience looking at coins already graded and hands -on instruction work best; however, you asked about books.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, The ANA grading guide is no longer a good grading guide as the &quot;gradeflation&quot;&nbsp; you mentioned has made the photographs virtually obsolete.&nbsp; However, get a copy of the latest edition and read the very informative introduction.&nbsp; There is also a chart in the dollar section that breaks down many of the factors used to grade coins.&nbsp; This chart is used by me/has been tested in classrooms and it works!</p><p><br /></p><p>Grading Coins by Photographs is the BEST guide there is right now.&nbsp; Buy it, use the photos, and READ the introduction several times.&nbsp; The PCGS grading guide gives some more useful info about how coins are graded. </p><p><br /></p><p>Get a copy of the NCI Grading guide.&nbsp; Pay no attention to Chapter 8 and use the book to learn about high points and focal points.&nbsp; Making the Grade is a similar treatment.&nbsp; I have not read the Art and Science of Grading yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Join the ANA and borrow the coin grading tape by JP Martin or take the Grading Correspondence Course.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have fun, go slow, get/read the books, and only by slabbed coins for now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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