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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3195611, member: 19165&quot;]A picture is worth a thousand words! You can have text descriptions all day long, but I think a photo comparison is far more useful.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you don&#039;t like the Ruddy book &quot;Photograde&quot;, or the ANA grading guide, or any of those sorts of books that show all the series in various grades? The site I linked has no text description, but the books do. (You can disagree about which one is the most accurate, or has the standards you most agree with, of course). </p><p><br /></p><p>I think it is an incredibly valuable tool. I&#039;m not sure it&#039;s the &quot;end all, be all&quot;, but if I don&#039;t know how to grade a Buffalo nickel, seeing pictures of it in F, VF, and EF is going to be far more useful than some words about some blasted horn and feathers.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t like grading by comparing to photographs, how would you propose we teach people to grade series they are unfamiliar with?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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