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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bahabully, post: 836957, member: 17555&quot;]A wider range of grades are coming.. patience.&nbsp; We&#039;ll have a nice sample size at the end.&nbsp;&nbsp; We&#039;re in the AU-MS range now, with a few exceptions tossed in.&nbsp;&nbsp; I will not let you know when we transition to other grades, and may also toss in an AU or MS when we get there to keep the random nature of the exercise in check.&nbsp; We will also transition to other TPG&#039;s, which I will note,,, I think that will be fun when we get to it, and really throw a monkey wrench in the game/exercise.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would critique if I was good enough,&nbsp; I&#039;m not, so I try to keep my ignorance under the sheet <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#039;ve looked at these in hand, and on many I simply cannot tell the difference between an AU58 and MS62 or MS63 sometimes.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is variation in TPG&#039;s grading, even with the best ones... and I think this current range kinda demonstates that as well... </p><p>There will be coins you will see that I can point to provide an example of this,, if fact, there is one in this thread that leaves me scratching my head.&nbsp;&nbsp; I simply don&#039;t know enough about grading differences in this range to critique beyond what I usually use to grade at this level:</p><p>1 - obvious hits and wear....</p><p>2 - wear above the ear,,, which is hard to differentiate between strike and wear for my overused eyes.</p><p>3 - wear on the wheat ears, the lines and the seeds.</p><p>4 - luster, which in the case of diffused lighting pictures, tends to show as the amound of &#039;white&#039; being reflected, or mixed in with the brown, on the reverse fields.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>...this isn&#039;t math and there isn&#039;t a purist answer for each coin,, you can only offer a best guess based off pictures as to what someone &quot;guessed&quot; a coin graded in hand.&nbsp; It is ambigious and should be fun and done for the learing of it,,, over time, we should all be able to &quot;dial in&quot; a bit more than we did when we started,, and then apply our honed skill in various venues like ebay, heritage, etc.....&nbsp; Hopfully, it will give us an edge in identifying those blurry, fuzzy, diffused, scanned, pics we run across and maybe pick up a great deal or two because of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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