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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1170790, member: 112"]Fair enough. But all that I have seen only show 1 picture for each grade. Now if they had a dozen or so for each grade showing the coins with the various characteristics and all of the same grade - then yeah, that would be of a benefit. But they don't. They show 1 picture and that's it. No argument, they do help with the basics. But a written description explaining the various characteristics that ANY coin needs to have to make a given grade does a much, much better job of teaching you the basics. As I said before, I recommend people get all the books on grading they can get, including the grading by pictures books. Because all of them combined will give you a much better basis to learn grading. But if you are only going to have one book - forget the picture books as they will do more harm than good. They will cause you to mis-grade 95% or more of your coins.[/QUOTE]