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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 3233755, member: 27832"]I bought both the second and third editions of Coin World's Making the Grade, but while it has huge color photos, they aren't as useful as I hoped at the time. You can't just hold a coin up against a series of photos and see where it fits. That works to some extent for lower grades ("at least three letters visible in LIBERTY"), but it falls apart for MS levels. Making the Grade is valuable because it also has "maps" for each type showing where wear occurs first, and where hits are more or less important on MS coins. What I'd really like is a book that has many photos of different examples for each grade of each coin. I wouldn't especially like paying for it, though. No possible book can substitute for looking at lots and lots and lots of coins, and testing your opinion against the TPG or other buyers and sellers. I'm still a lot closer to the bottom than the top of that learning curve.[/QUOTE]