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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2176197, member: 27832&quot;]I&#039;m not sure I agree. I&#039;ve come across plenty of examples where photographic images of the grades are hard to distinguish, but the text description calls attention to the important differences.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coins.about.com/od/Standing-Liberty-Quarters/tp/How-to-Grade-Standing-Liberty-Quarters.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.about.com/od/Standing-Liberty-Quarters/tp/How-to-Grade-Standing-Liberty-Quarters.htm" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s a page with good text descriptions and reasonable photos</a>. It bugs me to point people to about.com instead of a primary reference, but the information on this particular page seems fairly solid.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.thecoinspot.com/grading/g25cStanding.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thecoinspot.com/grading/g25cStanding.html" rel="nofollow">Here&#039;s a page with text descriptions</a>, although they&#039;re a bit terse. The linked photos reinforce my point above; different grades are lit differently, and unless you already know what you&#039;re looking for, they&#039;re not very useful.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/coin-grading-guide/Grading-Standing-Liberty-Quarters.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/coin-grading-guide/Grading-Standing-Liberty-Quarters.aspx" rel="nofollow">This discussion is interesting</a>, although it doesn&#039;t give you the information you&#039;re looking for. It does point out a major flaw in the published ANA grading standards for SLQs (not distinguishing the way dates wear on T2 vs T3 SLQs).</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, if you&#039;re determined to go by pictures alone, <a href="http://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/SLQ/Grades" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#/SLQ/Grades" rel="nofollow">here&#039;s the PCGS Photograde page you need</a>. At least Photograde has separate series for T1, T2 and T3 (I linked to T3), and their lighting seems consistent.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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