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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 662635, member: 19423&quot;]Looking at tons of coins, both in hand at shows and online in auction archives.&nbsp; Also, buying lots of coins of the same series and comparing them with one another is a big help.&nbsp; I&#039;ve done that with $5 Indian Gold (a very tough series to grade), but I&#039;m actually getting pretty good at it since I&#039;ve owned several pieces and have looked at hundreds of them in auctions and photos of hundreds more in auction archives.&nbsp; The problem is, as mentioned above, the third party graders can be somewhat inconsistent in their grading of coins, especially in a tough series like Indian Gold.&nbsp; Practice, practice, practice.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For Indian Cents, I read Rick Snow&#039;s grading guide which can be found on his website at <a href="http://www.indiancent.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.indiancent.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.indiancent.com/</a>&nbsp; Awesome resource.&nbsp; I also built my own grading set of Indian Cents so that I could get a general feel of the grading my studying examples graded by a third party grading service.&nbsp; I did a thread of that set here:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t59777/#post631423" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t59777/#post631423">http://www.cointalk.com/t59777/#post631423</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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