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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1599949, member: 112"]If look at 10 coins, all same date/mint, all graded MS64 by PCGS, or 10 by NGC - all 10 of those coins are going to look different. If you look at 100 of them probably 75-80 are going to look different. One will have fewer contact marks, one better luster, one a better strike, one more eye appeal, one fewer hairlines, or bigger marks or smaller marks, or marks in different places, or one is better centered, or one has rim dings and one doesn't, or any combination of any or all of the above. No two coins of the same grade, any grade, even if you look at a 1000 of them, are equal. Every single one of them will be different in some way from every single one of the others. Every coin is unique. That is what makes grading hard to do. So does making a grading set help you ? Yeah, it does. But all it will do is give you an idea, a rough idea, of what that given coin, in that given grade, will look like. You cannot judge other coins and grade them based on what other coins of that grade look like. You can only grade and judge individual coins based on a set grading standards, not other coins already graded. But it helps you wrap your head around the idea. But you need a lot of them.[/QUOTE]