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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Arizona Jack, post: 479729, member: 9308&quot;]I find the PCGS book ( I have it ) lacking in the Lincoln area. The best Lincoln books on the planet are the David Lange complete guide, and the Wexler / Flynn Authoritative Referance.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For grading, nothing beats experience, as any grading book will be general generic without referance to dates and mint characteristics. The Lange book is tops in this area.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To get this grading expereince, learn the series and look at as many coins as you can in the 2 TPG holders. Then learn the series some more. I think this would apply beyond Lincolns to anything that you choose to collect.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>PCGS has a tendancy to market grade heavily and has graded many AU coins as mintstate, as they tend to trade above 60 levels, NGC does not do this so much. There are several threads about me and others crossing NGC 58&#039;s into PCGS MS holders....EDIT, the most recent is a MS62 PCGS SVDB , and yes, my website description mentions the crossover</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for XF and AU coins, they are both the same, it&#039;s those ++liners that will get you confused. I firmly believe that the PCGS market concept is a detriment more so than the NGC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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