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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2923399, member: 112&quot;]I was pressed for time yesterday LuxUnit but I&#039;ll try and write a bit more detailed answer now. As already mentioned learning how to grade coins requires a good bit of study. You said above that you were going to school to get your doctorate. Well, you know how much study that has required - learning how to grade coins accurately and correctly is just like that, or any other trade really. They all require a lot of work, time, effort, and study !</p><p><br /></p><p>But here&#039;s the thing, once you&#039;ve completed your schooling and graduated, got your doctorate hanging on the wall. It&#039;s taken you years to accomplish that hasn&#039;t it ? But ya know what, even though you&#039;ve done all of that and are finally at that point - you&#039;re still just a rookie. Now the real learning comes into play - now comes the part where you begin to gain experience. And it is only after gaining that experience that you actually become good at your trade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Right now, you may have a hard time understanding how one can ever compare learning how to grade coins to something like becoming a doctor. But I assure you they are no different, but then neither is any other trade. To become an electrician or a plumber - it takes 4 years of schooling, and then another 2-4 years of schooling to become a master electrician or plumber. And then all the experience that goes with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is when it comes to learning how to grade coins there aren&#039;t any schools to go to, no colleges or universities have classes in that. Sure you can take classes and attend seminars at the ANA, but they generally only last from a couple of days to a couple of weeks. And you can even take correspondence classes, but they&#039;re pretty much the same. Point is all they give ya is the basics. So when ya wanna learn how to grade coins - you pretty much gotta do it on your own. Good news is - you can.</p><p><br /></p><p>So when you started your schooling, how did that begin ? It started with you buying books didn&#039;t it ? All schooling does, you have to be able to read and understand the books just to get started. And there&#039;s a lot of books, but that&#039;s because there&#039;s a lot to learn. Now you can try and shortcut things, not buy the books - but if ya do where does that leave ya ? I think you already know the answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line, sooner or later you gotta buy the books if you want to actually learn - that&#039;s the starting point. And after you read and study the books that&#039;s when you have to start studying the coins themselves. And as you&#039;re studying the coins you have to get the books out, read the book, look at the coin, and look at the book again. And you have to do that so you can compare what the book says to what your eyes see. And I don&#039;t mean just one here and there or a hundred, or a thousand, I mean tens of thousands of them. And that&#039;s just to learn how to grade 1 specific type of coin - just one ! And then you have to do the same thing with all the other coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Beginning to get the idea ? Ya see, learning how to grade coins is probably harder than learning how to become a doctor. But - you can do it.</p><p><br /></p><p>So back to the books. The questions you asked, the answers are in the books. I could try and explain it to you here but it would take a book to do so. And I mentioned I&#039;ve written thousands of posts on the subject of grading coins, but all of them combined still don&#039;t equal the books. You also mentioned that funds are tight, understandable when you&#039;re going to school. But here&#039;s a book that won&#039;t cost ya anything, and I strongly suggest you study it, intensely. Better yet, find a way to buy it to make that easier to do.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.coingrading.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coingrading.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coingrading.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now that&#039;s just one book, but it was written by one of the best coin graders there has ever been. But one book isn&#039;t gonna do it, it takes more. Just to get started it takes more. So here&#039;s 2 more books you need to buy, read, and study, intensely.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/the-official-ana-grading-standards-for-united-states-coins-hidden-spiral.html?atrkid=V3ADW4095EC2F_37038914585_pla-274960013758__165967469906_g_c_pla__1o1&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwLTvqcTr1wIVV7nACh1WdQxKEAQYASABEgLwUPD_BwE" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/the-official-ana-grading-standards-for-united-states-coins-hidden-spiral.html?atrkid=V3ADW4095EC2F_37038914585_pla-274960013758__165967469906_g_c_pla__1o1&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwLTvqcTr1wIVV7nACh1WdQxKEAQYASABEgLwUPD_BwE" rel="nofollow">http://www.wizardcoinsupply.com/product/the-official-ana-grading-standards-for-united-states-coins-hidden-spiral.html?atrkid=V3ADW4095EC2F_37038914585_pla-274960013758__165967469906_g_c_pla__1o1&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwLTvqcTr1wIVV7nACh1WdQxKEAQYASABEgLwUPD_BwE</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Official-Guide-Grading-Counterfeit-Detection/dp/0375720502" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Official-Guide-Grading-Counterfeit-Detection/dp/0375720502" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Official-Guide-Grading-Counterfeit-Detection/dp/0375720502</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now as you&#039;ll see they are not terribly expensive, one way or another you can afford to buy them. And if you buy used copies they are cheaper still. But if you want to learn to grade coins - buy them you must. Just remember, that&#039;s only the beginning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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