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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;walterallen, post: 160502, member: 4068&quot;]Cave Troll, you make a very good point about grading coins with differences in strike from year to year. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only problem I see with using PCGS or NGC slabbed coins as references as far as grading standards, inrespect to teaching yourself how to grade, which I do by the way, is this:</p><p><br /></p><p>ALL GRADED COINS ARE GRADED SUBJECTIVELY!!! Which means to me is that a MS65 could be a 64 or a 66 depending upon how the grader(s) decide that today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again you have this factor: If you took five different MS65 coins from the same year and mint I&#039;m sure your going to find one or two that are (in your eyes or opinion) better then the rest. Again subjectivity.</p><p><br /></p><p>What to do? I have decided to study and learn all I can. Which means I&#039;ll make some mistakes, but learn from them. In time I hope to be able to grade MS and Proof coins with some of the best. Could take years, could take decades. But the reward will be getting great rare coins without paying a grading service premium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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