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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1675274, member: 112&quot;]Honestly, trying to learn how to grade by looking at 1 picture of a coin in that grade is worse than worthless, it is downright harmful. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah I know now you&#039;re going to ask why. It&#039;s simple, look a 100 pictures of a coin all the same date and mint and all the same grade, by the same grading company. I can pretty much guarantee you that 75 or more of those 100 pictures will look different than all the others. </p><p><br /></p><p>So how can you possibly learn how to grade by looking at 1 picture ? You can&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you have to do is get the books, read and study the text and ignore the pictures. That gives you the basic rules (criteria) for grading. Then you need to look at literally thousands and thousands of coins, in hand. That gives you the basic experience you need to learn how to grade. And that&#039;s just for 1 coin. The same thing must be repeated for each different coin type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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