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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 26262587, member: 101855"]I started to learn to grade coins in the early 1960s with Brown and Dunn books. They had only line drawings, but it got me started on the circulated grades. Around 1970, I obtained the Photograde book. It had its faults, but I learned a great deal from it. The ANA guide was sort of the capstone for me. Since then it’s been a matter of looking at tens of thousands of coins. That’s the way one seals the knowledge you get from the books.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 26262587, member: 101855"]I started to learn to grade coins in the early 1960s with Brown and Dunn books. They had only line drawings, but it got me started on the circulated grades. Around 1970, I obtained the Photograde book. It had its faults, but I learned a great deal from it. The ANA guide was sort of the capstone for me. Since then it’s been a matter of looking at tens of thousands of coins. That’s the way one seals the knowledge you get from the books.[/QUOTE]
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