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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;aubade21, post: 2446197, member: 44104&quot;]I&#039;ve been a member of the EAC for years and it is a great community of collectors. So if you haven&#039;t joined, it is well worth the cost of membership. My only regret is that I didn&#039;t join earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding grading, the EAC has it&#039;s own grading standards which consider sharpness, surfaces, and color. One thing that I&#039;d suggest is to buy a copy of the EAC&#039;s guide for grading copper&nbsp; <a href="http://eacs.org/books-and-resources/eac-grading-guide/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://eacs.org/books-and-resources/eac-grading-guide/" rel="nofollow">http://eacs.org/books-and-resources/eac-grading-guide/</a>. It is an excellent book authored by some extremely knowledgeable copper experts. It covers EAC grading for many types of copper coins (such has half cents, large cents, and colonials) along with many other topics that interest EAC collectors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than that, there a many great books (just run a search in CoinTalk) that deal with variety collecting of the various series. More than anything though, there is no substitute to handling a lot of copper. If you don&#039;t live in an area where that is possible, check out past auctions from Heritage and Goldberg. They have good pictures and well written descriptions of the coins they sell. </p><p><br /></p><p>Glad to hear you&#039;ve caught the copper bug! Good Luck[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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