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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;QUEENKOIN, post: 32946, member: 656&quot;]wow, this can be loaded question...</p><p>Some would say buy a blindfold and a dart board and your there...</p><p><br /></p><p>the ANA in Colorado teaches classes on grading, I would start there...</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some ex graders on the PCGs coin forums, such as Mark Feld, Andy Lustig..</p><p><br /></p><p>They can give you great advice..</p><p><br /></p><p>I can only say, study as many graded coins as you can when you are at shows......</p><p><br /></p><p>Purchase raw coins, grade them and send them in... see how you do...</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing that used to hurt me was I always seemed to see my coins in a better light then the pro-graders did.... Till I discovered what they were looking for in each given grade for my series of choice, the Franklin half...</p><p><br /></p><p>After much study and submitting, I know what they are looking for and armed with this knowledge I am able to make much wiser purchases with the intent of submitting the coins I buy...</p><p><br /></p><p>For Franklins and Winged Libertys anyways, I get beat up pretty good with classic commems...</p><p><br /></p><p>Also PCGs runs a grading contest at the major shows, win some of those and ol Hepdaddy Hall may give you a job.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can grade pretty darn good within my collecting specialties, however I spend some time with the coins, were a Pro grader makes a decision within 10 seconds.... Which baffles me....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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