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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 26262771, member: 19165&quot;]I got started as a child with the very most basic descriptions in the Red Book. Eventually I got Photograde, and then ANA. I now own the PCGS (for research) and I bought Brown and Dunn for history.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of them show pictures or descriptions of each grade, and you match your coin to a picture. </p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly... I found them all inadequate. The best of them had 20 pages of info on how to grade or what terms mean. None of them had the depth that you really need to fully understand a coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>How do you evaluate the surfaces, the strike, the luster, the wear, the contact marks, and everything else... if you don&#039;t understand what that means? How can you judge the condition of the coin if you can&#039;t explain why it behaves the way it does? </p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s why I wrote my book. Why does your coin look the way it does? How do you tell a weak strike from wear? How do you know if its early die state or late die state? The answers are in my book.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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