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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1931853, member: 26302&quot;]OP, I agree with Doug of course. Grading a coin, especially a circulated coin, should be the first thing a coin collector learns. I might have been 10 or 12 and you could stick any coin, any age, from anywhere in the world, in front of me and I could grade it if I knew what an uncirculated piece looked like. Grading circulated coins is not rocket science, its pretty dang easy. It just takes practice, lots and lots of practice with thousands of coins. After a while the difference between a VG and F, on any coin, you will see in half a second. XF/AU/BU only get complicated in the whole &quot;weak strike&quot;, &quot;worn dies&quot;, crud, which I have always disagreed with, so I moved on to ancients who do not practice such grading fallacies/shenanigans/hokum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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