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<p>[QUOTE="oz_in_ohio, post: 2835203, member: 89534"]The best way in my eyes to get numismatic and philatelic education ( as they fall in the same sort of areas ) is to firstly purchase a caralogue and memorize how to tell different gradings.... That is easier said then done.... Then go to a coin shop and spend about 20.00 on a heap if mixed coins by weight and sit at the kitchen table with your book and grade them accordingly. Forget the price of the item, you are just interested in the grading . Then once you get good enough, you can offer the coin shop some service to help grade...That can only do good by you as you will learn on the way...That is what i did as a kid after school for an hour but not as ajob..As you see i was pocking the dalers brains so to speak and that was my wages instead of money. ....As that is what i did as a kid and now i am very very pedantic with gradings.... NB, i am not perfect and i can make errors but it would only be in .1 - .2 of a grade. I grade down on my own collection as any fool can grade up.... If i want to sell something, i grade my way and when a dealer sees it, he realizes i have made an error in the grading and usually i get my asking price. Each coin minted in the USA has its own high points and you have to learn them first.... As i was originally an aussie, i had a hard time doing it as i was so used to the aussie way of things. </p><p>EG The word liberty must be somewhat visible on the heads side.</p><p>: On the morgan dollars, i first look at the breast of feathers on the </p><p> eagle and then the hair above the ear.</p><p>: Peace dollars i look at the eagles feathers only.</p><p>: Half dollars i look at JFK's hairline tip of upper earlobe and cheek</p><p>: Quarters ( wings of the eagle ) </p><p>: Dimes : The wreath</p><p>: nickels : buffalos horn must be somewhat visible to get any ort of value</p><p>: Lincoln cents: The grains of wheat be somewhat visible </p><p><br /></p><p> if someone wants to correct me, feel free. That does not mean i will take notice....lol</p><p><br /></p><p>This will not take you 5 minutes to learn, it will take a long time unless you </p><p>have a photographic memory and only need to read something once and know it forever.</p><p><br /></p><p>You may like to go to a public library and ask for the reference section. They should have the Krause world coin book there. I have added a picture of one that i have....Notice it is only up to the year 2000. You can also get 1801 - 1900... 1701 - 1800....1601 - 1700 and 1501 - 1600 They are huge. I personally have them all including the banknote volumes. I got most of mine mine on amazon. These books in the library cannot be borrowed or taken out as it is reference..You must look at them there and they will be very specific. [ATTACH=full]669236[/ATTACH] The most common grades you will need ( in my opinion ) from experience will be Fine to almost EF ( a/EF )...That is what i did as a kid and later on i then went into higher grades.... Remember this is only to learn how to grade....NOT VALUE!!!!! As the value of any coin is only what a person is willing to pay for it....That also i learnt at a young age from a coin dealer in my school years.</p><p><br /></p><p>lastly notice my book is 17 years old and prices may have caught up to present days values. So dont take prices in these books as gospel if you intend to resell. I dont mind doing all this as people like you are the hobbies future...if there are no people out there interested, then this hobby will slowly fold...</p><p><br /></p><p>These books are also useful for mintages or anmounts made..... personally i buy about 4 different coins and only that in all grades...i go for low mintages like the Australian 1925 penny, 1911s and 12s USA wheat pennies. 1933 Australian Shilling and the 1915 australian threepence. The grade does not matter as most collections are missing them and these coins are easily sold...Go look in ebay for them and you may be surprised on the values of the coins that have been sold in there. a lot of "S" mintmark coins made it to Australia in the early part of last century.... It may pay you to look on the AU site on ebay as well.</p><p>My favourite out of all these is the 1933 shilling as there was under half a million made for the entire world. All you have to do is think how many may have been melted into bullion!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Lots of luck and hope you become good at grading...OIO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="oz_in_ohio, post: 2835203, member: 89534"]The best way in my eyes to get numismatic and philatelic education ( as they fall in the same sort of areas ) is to firstly purchase a caralogue and memorize how to tell different gradings.... That is easier said then done.... Then go to a coin shop and spend about 20.00 on a heap if mixed coins by weight and sit at the kitchen table with your book and grade them accordingly. Forget the price of the item, you are just interested in the grading . Then once you get good enough, you can offer the coin shop some service to help grade...That can only do good by you as you will learn on the way...That is what i did as a kid after school for an hour but not as ajob..As you see i was pocking the dalers brains so to speak and that was my wages instead of money. ....As that is what i did as a kid and now i am very very pedantic with gradings.... NB, i am not perfect and i can make errors but it would only be in .1 - .2 of a grade. I grade down on my own collection as any fool can grade up.... If i want to sell something, i grade my way and when a dealer sees it, he realizes i have made an error in the grading and usually i get my asking price. Each coin minted in the USA has its own high points and you have to learn them first.... As i was originally an aussie, i had a hard time doing it as i was so used to the aussie way of things. EG The word liberty must be somewhat visible on the heads side. : On the morgan dollars, i first look at the breast of feathers on the eagle and then the hair above the ear. : Peace dollars i look at the eagles feathers only. : Half dollars i look at JFK's hairline tip of upper earlobe and cheek : Quarters ( wings of the eagle ) : Dimes : The wreath : nickels : buffalos horn must be somewhat visible to get any ort of value : Lincoln cents: The grains of wheat be somewhat visible if someone wants to correct me, feel free. That does not mean i will take notice....lol This will not take you 5 minutes to learn, it will take a long time unless you have a photographic memory and only need to read something once and know it forever. You may like to go to a public library and ask for the reference section. They should have the Krause world coin book there. I have added a picture of one that i have....Notice it is only up to the year 2000. You can also get 1801 - 1900... 1701 - 1800....1601 - 1700 and 1501 - 1600 They are huge. I personally have them all including the banknote volumes. I got most of mine mine on amazon. These books in the library cannot be borrowed or taken out as it is reference..You must look at them there and they will be very specific. [ATTACH=full]669236[/ATTACH] The most common grades you will need ( in my opinion ) from experience will be Fine to almost EF ( a/EF )...That is what i did as a kid and later on i then went into higher grades.... Remember this is only to learn how to grade....NOT VALUE!!!!! As the value of any coin is only what a person is willing to pay for it....That also i learnt at a young age from a coin dealer in my school years. lastly notice my book is 17 years old and prices may have caught up to present days values. So dont take prices in these books as gospel if you intend to resell. I dont mind doing all this as people like you are the hobbies future...if there are no people out there interested, then this hobby will slowly fold... These books are also useful for mintages or anmounts made..... personally i buy about 4 different coins and only that in all grades...i go for low mintages like the Australian 1925 penny, 1911s and 12s USA wheat pennies. 1933 Australian Shilling and the 1915 australian threepence. The grade does not matter as most collections are missing them and these coins are easily sold...Go look in ebay for them and you may be surprised on the values of the coins that have been sold in there. a lot of "S" mintmark coins made it to Australia in the early part of last century.... It may pay you to look on the AU site on ebay as well. My favourite out of all these is the 1933 shilling as there was under half a million made for the entire world. All you have to do is think how many may have been melted into bullion!!! Lots of luck and hope you become good at grading...OIO[/QUOTE]
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