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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 91236, member: 112&quot;]Yes there are grading standards, well known ones. But there is no <u>single</u> grading standard that everybody uses. You see, NGC has their own set of grading standards, as does PCGS, ANACS and ICG. NGC and PCGS have published their standards in book form. To the best of my knowledge ANACS &amp; ICG have not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are the independent grading standards also published in book form - Brown &amp; Dunn, Photgrade, The ANA Grading Standards, Grading US Coins and a couple more that I can&#039;t remember the titles of right now. Coin World is also coming out with their own book of grading standards.</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all - they are all very similar to each other, but different on some points. As already stated, the best thing I can recommend is to read all of them - study them - and create your own comprehensive set of standards that encompasses the entire spectrum. Then study the coins in person. But you have to look at thousands &amp; thousands to get really good at it.</p><p><br /></p><p>After enough practice, you can pretty well predict how any of the TPG&#039;s will grade a given coin. And once you can do that - you&#039;re all set. For your grading will be about as consistent as anybody&#039;s in today&#039;s world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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