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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sam Stone, post: 4350512, member: 110020&quot;][ATTACH=full]1101198[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1101199[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1101200[/ATTACH] I hope everyone had a peaceful, happy, and safe Easter despite this horrible virus scare. When I say I care for the goodwill of everyone I&#039;ve come across in these forums, I couldn&#039;t be more sincere.</p><p><br /></p><p>My career was in healthcare so I&#039;ve unexpectedly become useful recently, but that means I haven&#039;t been able to be as active in collecting as I would have preferred. Still struggling with the constructs of grading, specifically the subjectivity (and the rest of it, too), I respectfully request permission to temporarily skip homework in favor of Cliff notes. My time may be limited right now, but that&#039;s exactly why I want, and need, to spend time playing with my coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I know these photos still aren&#039;t the quality they should be so I actually reached out to the manufacturer of my microscope but haven&#039;t had time to pair their advice with the great suggestions I&#039;ve received from the forums. These are pics I have taken while practicing and I&#039;m hoping anyone might be willing to take a quick glance and offer opinions on grade for the coins? I know I need both sides for real grades, but I&#039;m just trying to get a better understanding regarding grade. Pretending the images were good enough to form a reasonable grading opinion, would they be closer to Ded than mint state? Would any of them be fine, really fine, or super duper fine like my body was when I was a teenager? The sad state of my poor guesswork and inexperience just isn&#039;t cutting it. Until I get better at it, I&#039;ve been using my own 2 grades: DUD (Definitely a Useless Disappointment), and STUD (Save Til U Die) and that&#039;s the best I can do.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been advised to post no more than 2 or 3 pics and I will do as I&#039;m told, but I have enough questions for at least 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or.... etc,., posts with 2 or three pics each. Eventually.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, I haven&#039;t always been married so speaking of fine and extra fine, there was this brunette I knew in college...........</p><p><br /></p><p>Best wishes and prayers to all.</p><p><br /></p><p>ps: my editing software just died so it took me six weeks tonight to try a new app. Hopefully it&#039;s not worse than it was going to be already.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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