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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pennycase, post: 20641, member: 1141&quot;]That&#039;s what I personally started out using to grade coins, up untill I started realizing that I tend to grade a coin one point below what everyone else does, I don&#039;t blame this on the book though, I believe it to be a valuable grading guide personally for circulated coinage. I believe most collectors should stop looking towards the traditional grading guides as they progress, only early on should they use this, untill they have built up a good idea of grades etc, then later on when you have more experience, base your own judgement on the grade of coins, take for instance, The only way a barber coin to me grades F-12, regardless of details on the reverse, or other parts, is that it must have a FULL bold liberty, unless it has that, it is only a Good in my opinion. This kind of use for grades should only be used by people who are strictly collectors, not investors. If you are the type that must have it the graded by traditional manners and accepted worldwide, buy coins that are slabbed by pcgs, or ngc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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