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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Penny Lady®, post: 567467, member: 16948&quot;]In addition to all the practice, asking a lot of questions, as mentioned above, reading and studying is one of the best ways to learn.&nbsp; The ANA (<a href="http://www.money.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.money.org" rel="nofollow">www.money.org</a>) sells a video on learning to grade called &quot;Grading Mint-State U.S. Coins&quot;, and my favorite book that I recommend to my customers is &quot;Making the Grade&quot; published by Coin Values (Coin World).&nbsp; It has full color photos of each grade for most U.S. coins - here&#039;s a site that sells this book and other coin books close to wholesale:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.jakesmp.net/CSD_Books/CSD_Bks_138_M.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jakesmp.net/CSD_Books/CSD_Bks_138_M.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.jakesmp.net/CSD_Books/CSD_Bks_138_M.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Learning to grade coins well is the best thing you&#039;ll ever do for yourself as a collector.&nbsp; Putting a PCGS or NGC grading set together of each grade (circulated and uncirculated) of your favorite series is also very helpful.&nbsp; You can study each coin and see for yourself what determines the assigned grade.&nbsp; The hard part is, since grading is subjective and coins are graded by human beings and each human being has his/her own idea of what constitutes eye appeal, there will be variances - that&#039;s what makes grading so contoversial and so widely discussed!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Don&#039;t give up and best of luck to you![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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