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<p>[QUOTE="ccrook, post: 2391037, member: 78002"]Hey all,</p><p><br /></p><p>I started working on a site as a side project to help myself get better at visually grading coins. Basically, it's the inverse of PCGS Photograde. Instead of showing a single coin as an example of a specific grade, you are presented a number of coins of a specific series and asked to provide grades. For coins that are professionally graded, we can immediately see how accurate a user's grade is. We can also see, on average, what a user of the site believes the grade to be (the "crowd grade"). The site serves a two-fold purpose: 1) allow people to practice visually grading coins and 2) with a decent sized user base, could allow users to get a ballpark grade estimate from the "crowd" for a coin they've uploaded.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm planning to add the ability to upload and import coins, as well as tag images with pickup points for varieties, damage, evidence of cleaning, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>The site currently free as it is still in beta testing. I need to implement a good deal of additional functionality (and bug fixes, no doubt).</p><p><br /></p><p>Please feel free to sign up and try it out at -- I'd love any feedback with regards to whether or not this might be a fun/useful product, and what other features you might like to see.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ccrook, post: 2391037, member: 78002"]Hey all, I started working on a site as a side project to help myself get better at visually grading coins. Basically, it's the inverse of PCGS Photograde. Instead of showing a single coin as an example of a specific grade, you are presented a number of coins of a specific series and asked to provide grades. For coins that are professionally graded, we can immediately see how accurate a user's grade is. We can also see, on average, what a user of the site believes the grade to be (the "crowd grade"). The site serves a two-fold purpose: 1) allow people to practice visually grading coins and 2) with a decent sized user base, could allow users to get a ballpark grade estimate from the "crowd" for a coin they've uploaded. I'm planning to add the ability to upload and import coins, as well as tag images with pickup points for varieties, damage, evidence of cleaning, etc. The site currently free as it is still in beta testing. I need to implement a good deal of additional functionality (and bug fixes, no doubt). Please feel free to sign up and try it out at -- I'd love any feedback with regards to whether or not this might be a fun/useful product, and what other features you might like to see.[/QUOTE]
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