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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1437667, member: 112&quot;]And it&#039;s just that simple. But if you want more explanation it&#039;s there in the book, you just have to know where it is. For example, go to the beginning of the book to find a detailed explanation for all of the various grades, including 66, 68 and 69, for both business strikes and Proofs. Or, for very popular coins like Morgans and Peace dollars they have am additional section that shows you the prime focal areas and gives descriptions for all of the MS grades.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, looking at the graded coin in hand if far better than looking at a picture. But when you have 10 graded coins in your hand, all 10 of them are going to look different, quite a bit different. That is what I was trying to illustrate with the 5 pics I posted. And that&#039;s the part you have to figure out. You have to figure out why they can look so different and yet grade exactly the same. And you can never do that by looking at 1 graded coin in hand. You have to look at thousands of graded coins in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now obviously nobody is ever going to be able to put together a grading set to be able to do that. So what you have to do is go to coin shows. At just 1 coin show you can almost always see 100 different examples of any given coin in any given grade. Go to 10 coin shows and you will see 1,000. Go to a 100 coin shows and you will see 10,000.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coin shows are the college classrooms of numismatics. It is by going to coin shows that you get your education. So go to every single one you can, whenever you can.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Everybody always asks, it&#039;s my initials <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Morgans are a series, Peace dollars are a series. Indian Head cents are a series, Lincoln cents with wheat reverse are a series, Lincoln cents with memorial reverse are a series. And so on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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