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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1272290, member: 26302&quot;]To the OP, the best thing I can say is to go to the bank and get brand new coins. Take a look at them under the magnifier. See how the metal flows? See the luster on the coin as you tilt it in the light? A cleaned coin will not have this luster. A cleaned coin will have tiny scratches going against the grain of the coin. A cleaned coin will &quot;look different&quot;. Its not terribly easier to verbalize, yet after you have looked at a lot of coins suddenly a lot of coins for sale do not &quot;look right&quot;. It sounds silly, but actually really LOOKING at coins for a while really helps in collecting. While you are at this, get a bag of circulated cents or nickels and grade them, putting them into G, VG, F, etc piles. Use this versus a grading guide like photograde. Best way I know to teach a man how to grade coins. When you are done, look at each pile and see how many mistakes you made, and learn from them. I did this a few times as a kid, and since then can grade a circulated coin in about half a second.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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