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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1170670, member: 112&quot;]They print a book called Grading Coins By Photographs because it will sell, not to actually teach you anything. They are smart enough to realize that a lot of people will buy such a book thinking that they can learn how to grade by looking at pictures.</p><p><br /></p><p>But here&#039;s the problem with such an idea. A picture only shows 1 particular coin and from that picture you can probably determine why that particular coin was graded the way it was - say 65. But what about all the other coins of the same date/mint graded 65 - why were they graded the way they were ?</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, if you take 10 1885-CC Morgans, or any other coin for that matter, and all of them are graded 65 and you compare them to one another you will many glaring differences between the coins and you will wonder how and why they are all graded the same. One coin will have booming luster but yet have many contact marks. Another will have vurtually no contact marks and only so-so luster. Another will have a great strike and yet another a very weak strike -&nbsp; but yet all of them are graded the same. With the rest, there are even more differences.</p><p><br /></p><p>But yet all of the coins are graded MS65. Why ? Does that single picture you look at explain it ? No, of course it doesn&#039;t because it can&#039;t. That picture can only explain the grade for that 1 particular coin. So by using that picture how can you possibly know how to grade other coins that look completely different than the one in the picture ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Beginning to get the idea of why you can&#039;t learn to grade by using pictures ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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