Doug points out that the dark circled areas are the high points that Buffalo Nickels need to judge on for wear when splitting an AU from a MS coin I just thought this was important enough to merit its own thread. Ruben
There's a nice book out there that shows all the high points on 25 commonly collected issues. Actually it's a compendium of articles from Coin Values. I was ripping the individual articles out of CV, then this book came along. So I forked over the bucks and got a copy. Something like $20-25. The title is Making the Grade. It's another guide you should consider adding to your library. Just make sure it covers at least part of your area of interest.
I may burn in plagiarism hell for this, but here's an example from the book I mentioned. I just "happened" to choose Buffalo nickels. edited - it's a good book kanga, but posting scans of it violates copyright law
But the pictures are pretty useless , most of the top grading books need better pics. The book Kanga brought up is one of the better ones , " Making the Grade " rzage
I don't disagree, but how good of a picture do you need to see where the high point is ? The main point I was making is that the book kanga mentions only covers 25 coins - the ANA guide covers ALL of them. And the arrows they use point right to the highest point - they don't just cover a general area.
I agree with GDJMSP. The ANA Grading Book is the best I have found for grading US Coins of all types. The only issue seen with this book is people who use it will read the Grade they think fits their coin and go with that one. Grading is progressive and all proceeding grades must be met before settling on the final grade. When using this book start with the lowest grade and be sure your coin satisfies that grade before moving to the next one.
I always wondered wether it was better to start from the lower grades or the higher , thanks now I know , when I said the pictures were useless I meant the grading pictures , not the high points picture , to grade from pictures you'd probably need 25 high quality pictures for each grade , and even then it would be hard . The wording says it all . rzage
I always thought that using a section of a book for educational purposes was within the right of use boundaries. Bummer.
