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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;halfcent1793, post: 3720603, member: 86853&quot;]PCGS Photograde online is handy. You can have it with you on your phone. Most of the images are quite good and reasonable for the grade. The <i>Photograde</i> book, unless there&#039;s been a recent major upgrade, has poor photos and even uses the same photo for different grades. I would never use it. The ANA grading guide is useful. <i>Making the Grade</i>&#039;s photos are generally good, and the book has the advantage of using the old Jim Halperin color-coded images for where the main focal areas are. I don&#039;t find the photos published in Coin World&#039;s monthly issues to be particularly useful, as they lack contrast. When researching to write the EAC Grading Guide (published in 2014), I carefully went through every book on U.S. coin grading that I could find from Brown &amp; Dunn to <i>Making the Grade</i>. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you want a guide that will show you how TPGs will grade a particular coin, you&#039;re out of luck. Even the PCGS Photograde illustrates standards that they don&#039;t always follow.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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