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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;beef1020, post: 1293719, member: 24544&quot;]If you are interested in the late dates, 1840 plus, a good place to start for grading is Gary Hahn&#039;s websit: <a href="http://early-copper.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://early-copper.com/" rel="nofollow">http://early-copper.com/</a>&nbsp; He has a portion of the webpage which is EAC grading.&nbsp; It shows problem free coins from around vg7 to MS which should give you a very good idea of how strict EAC sharpness grades are.&nbsp; Not picking on NGC, but I just picked up a 46 which was graded xf40 by them. EAC grade would be 20/15, so the disparity can be huge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit, I noticed no one has mentioned it yet, so here goes... Buy the book first.&nbsp; If you get into these coins the standard reference books are a must, at least one for each series you like:</p><p><br /></p><p>Early - Sheldon, Noyes, Breen</p><p>Middle - Wright, Noyes</p><p>Late - Grellman</p><p>Price guide - Copper quotes.&nbsp; If I had to buy only one this would be it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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