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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 719808, member: 15199&quot;]If that type of learning works well, that is great. Might I offer an alternative, that might help you. It did me when I started looking at Jefferson nickels and trying to grade them. I went to the bank and got about 10 rolls and took all of a certain date/mm out to play with. This was in the late 70s so I forget what year I used.</p><p><br /></p><p>I then arranged them vertically according to what I saw as grade/wear without assigning numbers, just best to worse. When one looked the same, I moved it to the side of the other. I wanted to get from MS-70&nbsp; ( haaa, sure) to G ( VG was the worse). It became a challenge to try and complete the vertical line, and I never did even from MS-63. I was hoping to see 55-60 different vertical, but I think ended up with around 36-40. Then working horizontally, I was able after a while to see some differences there, and add another vertical one.</p><p><br /></p><p>After working at this, it seemed easy to determine from the various grading guides, where the EF45 was and so forth, but even knowing I would not see a EF42, or 41, I still felt much more secure grading them in my hand. I made a card with the major grading points and a sample coin in a 2x2 stapled next to the grade. Although I think I no longer need it as a &quot;cheat sheet&quot;, I still have it&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I started one with 1944 Lincolns, but ran out of them back then. Maybe I will start one again and see if it is easier now. Anyway, maybe this only wouldn&#039;t help many, but it is a different way from trying to memorize photos or desciptions&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I know that this doesn&#039;t account for strikes, EDS compared to LDS, etc., but it might help on learning grading skills.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jim[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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