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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1718625, member: 112&quot;]Photo grading guides are of little use, in fact they are far more harmful than good in my opinion. That is because they show you a picture of 1 single coin, and that will if anything lead you to under-grade or over-grade coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>And that is because if you looked at 100 pictures of a single coin, 100 different examples, all the same date/mint, and all graded by the same TPG at the same grade, almost all of them would look different from each other. Yet they are all the same grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>So how can you possibly learn how to grade a coin from looking at pictures of 1 coin in a given grade ? Answer, you can&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are far better off learning the written descriptions and grading standards for each grade, and then looking at thousands of coins, in hand, that have already been graded, if you want to learn how to grade. Doing that will teach you how and why so many different coins that all look different than each other, can all be graded exactly the same. Or, be graded differently.</p><p><br /></p><p>Never rely on pictures of a single graded coin for comparison purposes so you can grade another coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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