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<p>[QUOTE="geekpryde, post: 4136332, member: 36248"]Well, CoinTalk for starters!</p><p><br /></p><p>There are lots of GTG (Guess the Grade) threads here. If you read every post on every one of those threads you will start to get an idea, a feel for, grading. Now, there are loads of opinions, some people are notorious tough, hard, conservative graders. Old-School if you will. People like [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER] . Others are more lenient. NGC and PCGS, the two primary TPG (Third Party Graders) have similar, but not identical grading standards. Some people can look at a coin for 10 seconds, recognize a particular problem the coin had, others could stare at it for 10 years and never see it until it's explicitly pointed out.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, overall if you study the coins in the threads, study other people's grades and comments, see how the TPG graded the coin, well through Lurking alone you will start to get a feel for grades, and how most people grade coins. Now, that doesn't make you good at grading, but you need to get a feel for the language, the big concepts, what to look for, etc. I think get a wholistic "idea" of grading is a good place to start. Just looking at hundreds and hundreds of coins, and how TPG graded them is beneficial, including problem coins. The more you absorb through this lurking, the more minutiae of grading will make more sense to you, vs. you just throwing yourself from zero to 1000 on grading. Sure, maybe you will learn some of the wrong lessons, things like "tribal knowledge" that most people believe, but that aren't actually true. But in my own journey, it took years of lurking, and studying, and reading, to even pretend to grade a coin. I think a lot of people operate that way. The Terminology and acronyms alone took me a long time to absorb.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you wanted to rent/buy a used copy of one book, well this one is a great start:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Official-Standards-American-Numismatic-Association/dp/0794838243/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Official+ANA+Grading+Standards+for+United+States+Coins&qid=1582123538&sr=8-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Official-Standards-American-Numismatic-Association/dp/0794838243/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Official+ANA+Grading+Standards+for+United+States+Coins&qid=1582123538&sr=8-4" rel="nofollow">Official ANA Grading Standards for United States Coins</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, you could always get a mentor, and there are many here on CoinTalk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="geekpryde, post: 4136332, member: 36248"]Well, CoinTalk for starters! There are lots of GTG (Guess the Grade) threads here. If you read every post on every one of those threads you will start to get an idea, a feel for, grading. Now, there are loads of opinions, some people are notorious tough, hard, conservative graders. Old-School if you will. People like [USER=112]@GDJMSP[/USER] . Others are more lenient. NGC and PCGS, the two primary TPG (Third Party Graders) have similar, but not identical grading standards. Some people can look at a coin for 10 seconds, recognize a particular problem the coin had, others could stare at it for 10 years and never see it until it's explicitly pointed out. But, overall if you study the coins in the threads, study other people's grades and comments, see how the TPG graded the coin, well through Lurking alone you will start to get a feel for grades, and how most people grade coins. Now, that doesn't make you good at grading, but you need to get a feel for the language, the big concepts, what to look for, etc. I think get a wholistic "idea" of grading is a good place to start. Just looking at hundreds and hundreds of coins, and how TPG graded them is beneficial, including problem coins. The more you absorb through this lurking, the more minutiae of grading will make more sense to you, vs. you just throwing yourself from zero to 1000 on grading. Sure, maybe you will learn some of the wrong lessons, things like "tribal knowledge" that most people believe, but that aren't actually true. But in my own journey, it took years of lurking, and studying, and reading, to even pretend to grade a coin. I think a lot of people operate that way. The Terminology and acronyms alone took me a long time to absorb. If you wanted to rent/buy a used copy of one book, well this one is a great start: [URL='https://www.amazon.com/Official-Standards-American-Numismatic-Association/dp/0794838243/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Official+ANA+Grading+Standards+for+United+States+Coins&qid=1582123538&sr=8-4']Official ANA Grading Standards for United States Coins[/URL] Of course, you could always get a mentor, and there are many here on CoinTalk.[/QUOTE]
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