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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 46230, member: 57463&quot;]I used a screenshot of this page as an illustration to my talk on Counterfeits at the Pittsburgh ANA last summer.</p><p><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article1908.chtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article1908.chtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article1908.chtml</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The PCGS <i>Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection</i> by Travers and Danreuther has a bit <u>less</u> than the webpage, interestingly enough.</p><p><br /></p><p>I trust any of the Big Four grading sevices, easily enough.&nbsp; Graders tend to be people with a lot of experience who pass tests to get their jobs.&nbsp; I am not a grader, but when I applied to work at <i>Coin World</i>, they gave me a series of coins to identify. Of course, they wanted to know that I knew something, but more to the point, they let me use the library in order to show that I knew how to find out the facts about something.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It is amusing when collectors -- especially old collectors -- say, &quot;I&#039;ve been collecting for 30 years, I&#039;ve seen thousands of coins!&quot;&nbsp; Depending on the company and the market a grader might see conservatively 30,000 coins a year (100 coins a day, 300 days a year) -- or more.&nbsp; The material tends to be at the highest end of the scales for grade or rarity.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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