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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1873327, member: 26302"]My own "posted a 100 times" contribution to this thread would be the suggestion to go out and buy a grading book like Photograde and a bag or two of nickels. Read the section and look at the pictures of Jefferson nickels, and start categorizing by grade. Make one pile G, next VG, etc. Go through every coin. Then go back and look at all of the G nickels. Do they all look correctly graded? Go back through every pile, paying attention to coins you made mistakes on, or are hard to grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Its the best way I know how to teach grading of circulated coins. Effectively all coins are graded the same way. Once you learn how to grade a nickel, all you need to learn on how to grade a washington quarter is what is its high points versus the jeff nickel. Everything else is the same. </p><p><br /></p><p>When you get done, either you can go through and keep the best graded coin of each date/mm as a start of a set, or simply deposit back into the bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, for uncirculated coins its somewhat harder. Then you have to learn to recognize cleaned coins, etc, but I still believe this is a great start for a new collector. I plan on having my sons do exactly this if they ever become interested in collecting coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1873327, member: 26302"]My own "posted a 100 times" contribution to this thread would be the suggestion to go out and buy a grading book like Photograde and a bag or two of nickels. Read the section and look at the pictures of Jefferson nickels, and start categorizing by grade. Make one pile G, next VG, etc. Go through every coin. Then go back and look at all of the G nickels. Do they all look correctly graded? Go back through every pile, paying attention to coins you made mistakes on, or are hard to grade. Its the best way I know how to teach grading of circulated coins. Effectively all coins are graded the same way. Once you learn how to grade a nickel, all you need to learn on how to grade a washington quarter is what is its high points versus the jeff nickel. Everything else is the same. When you get done, either you can go through and keep the best graded coin of each date/mm as a start of a set, or simply deposit back into the bank. Now, for uncirculated coins its somewhat harder. Then you have to learn to recognize cleaned coins, etc, but I still believe this is a great start for a new collector. I plan on having my sons do exactly this if they ever become interested in collecting coins.[/QUOTE]
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