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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3133955, member: 112"]Bobby that's a problem that everybody faces, especially when they are starting out. That's because doing it that way requires a whole different skill set completely separate from grading - you have to learn how to interpret pictures before it can do you any real good. And the way you deal with it is to get yourself some books on grading and start there. You use the written descriptions in the books for each grade while looking at coins in hand that you do have. </p><p><br /></p><p>That part alone takes some time to learn, but once you do then you have to start looking at coins you don't have. And you can do that by going to coin shops and going to coin shows. You can learn more by going to a single coin show and studying the coins you see than you can in may years of looking at pictures. But it only becomes of benefit when you already have the basic knowledge behind you. And the more coins you look at the more knowledge you gain. Once you gain enough, then pictures start to be beneficial and you can learn even more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like any education learning to grade coins requires a series of steps that must be taken. And just like any series of steps you can't skip any, you have to take them all one at a time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3133955, member: 112"]Bobby that's a problem that everybody faces, especially when they are starting out. That's because doing it that way requires a whole different skill set completely separate from grading - you have to learn how to interpret pictures before it can do you any real good. And the way you deal with it is to get yourself some books on grading and start there. You use the written descriptions in the books for each grade while looking at coins in hand that you do have. That part alone takes some time to learn, but once you do then you have to start looking at coins you don't have. And you can do that by going to coin shops and going to coin shows. You can learn more by going to a single coin show and studying the coins you see than you can in may years of looking at pictures. But it only becomes of benefit when you already have the basic knowledge behind you. And the more coins you look at the more knowledge you gain. Once you gain enough, then pictures start to be beneficial and you can learn even more. Like any education learning to grade coins requires a series of steps that must be taken. And just like any series of steps you can't skip any, you have to take them all one at a time.[/QUOTE]
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