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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1627173, member: 26302&quot;]I have a really old ANA grading guide. I believe it helped a lot. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Problem&quot; with photo books is they will show you AN example of a F, VF, EF, etc, but its only AN example. THere can be 100 different looking IHC that are all VF since every coin is unique. </p><p><br /></p><p>Best way to learn to grade? Do it. In your head grade every coin you see, and if you disagree with the grade given stop and really LEARN why either you were mistaken, or why you disagree with the grade given.</p><p><br /></p><p>For newbies, I always said buy a bag of nickels at the bank, and grade every coin. Make a pile for G, VG, etc. When done, go through every pile, see if you still agree, make corrections to those you now believe you initially misgraded. If you wish to keep any that is up to you, or just put them back in the bag and send back to the bank. No cost, and you just received a tremendous lesson in grading.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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