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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 1484400, member: 15199&quot;]If you use the educational value of even just the AU58 $&nbsp; compared to the MS-62$ and can detect the differences, you will easily pay for the grading fees in time. Education and knowledge can be expensive money wise, but you can use the results for a long time. Au58$ were called &quot;sliders&quot; as they had the general appearance of Uncirculated and could slide by. Many collectors have AU58s in their collection that they still think are uncirculated and will until they send them off also, and then the moaning. Often AU58 coins look higher grade than the MS-62 coins, but the pricing is much different. Study the luster, notice the edges as wear or damage is often there, look for almost invisible criss cross lines on the high points that often changes a MS-63 into an AU 58.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am contemplating spending $1100 on 3 volumes of books on Gemstone inclusons as the knowledge within them could save me many times that amount, or make me many times that amount, if I can tell a real 3 ct. Ruby from a synthetic one. And like others here, my numismatic reference books have probably paid for themselves likewise. If I don&#039;t open the books, I lost. If you don&#039;t learn from your experiment , you have lost,&nbsp; Good luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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