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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LA_Geezer, post: 3185351, member: 89393&quot;]After reading another thread that dealt with TPGs and CAC, I thought I should go ahead and buy at least one book that is devoted to grading so that I can practice my assessment skills. Doug mentions the ANA manual above in post # 8, but I am wondering if this is too much of a book for my basic needs. I am thinking nomenclature with lots of photographic examples would be most helpful. I don&#039;t think I&#039;ll ever go beyond dabbling in just a few USA coin types, nor do I ever plan to sell any of the coins I&#039;ve collected ever since I was a boy in the 1950s. [USER=19165]@physics-fan3.14[/USER] referred to another book in a post, one that I had seen mentioned in this forum before, Poe&#039;s <i>The Art and Science of Grading Coins</i>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Long before I decided to post on this thread that already existed, I had done an Amazon search and came up with a bewildering number of books, all that looked like they might do the trick. I was taken with the title of one of these, Bowers&#039; <i>Grading Coins By Photographs</i>, thinking that by title alone this one might serve my initial needs well. Interestingly, the Bowers book and the ANA manual that [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER] endorses are recommended together by Amazon.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m quite sure that all of these would be helpful, but I am not looking for information overload, just something that can help me with nomenclature that provides examples. Thanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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