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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2339384, member: 112&quot;]And what good exactly do photos do when it comes to teaching you how to grade coins ? Answer, none. Pictures, by themselves, don&#039;t do you any good at all ! Of course they do a lot of good when it comes to selling books because people think they can look at a picture and know how to grade coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what people who don&#039;t know how to grade coins don&#039;t realize is that you can have 10, 20, or a 100 different coins all graded exactly the same and yet each and every one of them will look entirely different than all of the others. So how could a picture of 1 tell you how to grade all of the others ? Answer, it can&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many different criteria that must be examined and understood when grading coins, with each of them having an impact on the grade. Does a picture tell you that ? No. Does a picture tell you which of those criteria are primary and which are secondary ? No. Does a picture tell you how much weight or importance each criteria has ? No. Does a picture tell you when or why 1 single thing can mean that a coin has no grade, or even what those things are ? No. Does any picture tell you, or show you, everything there is to see on any coin ? No.</p><p><br /></p><p>So tell me, how could any grading book based on pictures teach you how to grade ? Answer, it can&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, are pictures helpful ? Yes definitely. But they do not and cannot teach you what you need to know to learn how to grade coins. If you want to learn how to grade coins read and every book you can find about grading coins. Study all of them. And that&#039;s only the first step. After that you must view many thousands of coins, and all the same coins, in hand, just to learn how to grade 1 specific coin. Then you need to do the same thing with every other coin. And that means every series within every type for every denomination.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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