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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sam Stone, post: 4134403, member: 110020&quot;]Good stuph, thanks. I used Excel a ton when I was still working so I can do this. I have a question, though. Where would you recommend as a good best place to study grading? I can&#039;t afford the services, but I have looked around the internet. I&#039;ve read many stories where someone quite knowledgeable did have something valuable and disagreed with the grade they received and where someone got a significantly higher grade than expected. I don&#039;t want that to sound accusatory, but it&#039;s impossible to be 100% consistent when human subjectivity is involved. I don&#039;t have anything valuable enough to grade anyway, so how can I best learn to get close in estimating grades? I&#039;m going to add a few pics (I&#039;m getting better at quality). I hope it&#039;s not unfair to ask if anyone might be willing or able to guess at grading range and explain a tiny bit about how they came to that conclusion. I&#039;m not asking for perfection, just some pointers on what helps, what hurts, and what really doesn&#039;t matter. If I can hold a coin in my hand and then see what you guys see, I would understand a lot more than just looking at pictures on the internet. Without getting better at approximating grading, I know everything I have is face value (or worse?) so I can&#039;t put anything in the value column on the spreadsheet. I think I&#039;m leaning towards wanting to collect errors and varieties, but mostly errors. I haven&#039;t found much consistency regarding grading with error coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at the pictures&nbsp; there is an Eisenhower dollar with dark toning, so it&#039;s not the bad photographer this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless, thank you for your help. As you said, I can use your column headings as a really good starting point.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1070103[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1070104[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1070105[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1070106[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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