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Message:: [QUOTE="differential, post: 8340835, member: 120104"]23-P it is. I did find an entire catalog where Stacks-B sold only NJ cents. Some of them were gorgeous (and expensive) and there were some that I wouldn't trade my coin for. For me alot of green corrosion would be more detrimental than graffiti. (Interesting that the ancient coin collectors sometimes like graffiti.) It's going to take awhile until I feel comfortable about the grading. I turned to "Making the Grade" and they start out with Large Cents, so there's no coverage of earlier coinage.  Grading these appears to be much more complex than grading coins for which there is a rubric (and no rubric is perfect--the judgment of an expert is the best grading of all.) It would be great to go to some Early Colonial shows, see hundreds of actual coins and get to talk about them with those who collect them. Trying to learn this virtually (as I will have to do for sometime to come) isn't as effective as going to coin shows, observing hundreds of coins, and interacting with others who have a passion for the coins. Not as much fun, either![/QUOTE]