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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 22719, member: 112"]Learning to grade initially is not that difficult - do what has already been suggested. What takes time is becoming good at it. Skill in accurately grading any series of coins requires much experience. You literally need to look at and grade for yourself 10's of thousands of coins from a given series.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is not as hard to do as it sounds - but it does take time. Read all the coin forums and participate. Look at as many quality pics of coins slabbed by the top grading companies as you can find on the auction sites. Go to coin shows and do the same. And practice grading your own coins. Your skills will develop and your grading accuracy will increase as you do this. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just remember - grading from pics is quite different from grading a coin in hand. It is still good practice to do so though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 22719, member: 112"]Learning to grade initially is not that difficult - do what has already been suggested. What takes time is becoming good at it. Skill in accurately grading any series of coins requires much experience. You literally need to look at and grade for yourself 10's of thousands of coins from a given series. This is not as hard to do as it sounds - but it does take time. Read all the coin forums and participate. Look at as many quality pics of coins slabbed by the top grading companies as you can find on the auction sites. Go to coin shows and do the same. And practice grading your own coins. Your skills will develop and your grading accuracy will increase as you do this. Just remember - grading from pics is quite different from grading a coin in hand. It is still good practice to do so though.[/QUOTE]
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