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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2296374, member: 112&quot;]First of all one has to understand what started this particular tangent of this discussion - <u><b>learning</b></u> how to grade based on pictures.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a huge difference between somebody trying to <b>learn</b> how to grade from looking at a picture of a single coin in XX grade; and somebody who already knows how to grade and knows how to interpret pictures looking at a picture of a specific coin and then estimating that coin&#039;s grade. They are two completely different things !</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the problem with trying to learn how to grade other coins based on a picture of 1 coin in a specific grade - no two coins are equal. Even though those two coins are the same grade, and graded by the same TPG, or individual, using the same standards for both coins, those two coins will always look completely different from each other. So how can you possibly use a picture of 1 coin, to learn how to grade another coin ?</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the professionals, they will be the first ones in line to tell you that you cannot grade a coin based on a picture ! Has any TPG ever graded even 1 coin based on a picture ? No. They tell you you have to send them the coin so they can see it in hand. Why do you think that is ? It&#039;s because you can&#039;t grade coins from pictures.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you think for 1 second that professional graders learn how to grade coins from looking at pictures ? They&#039;d laugh at you if you asked them that. They learn how to grade by first learning the grading standards, the written criteria, and then by looking at thousands upon thousands of coins - in hand !</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why learning how to grade based on pictures in some book is harmful. Because you are going about learning how to grade in entirely the wrong way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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