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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1171480, member: 26302&quot;]Doug is right. A single photo will do more harm than good by itself since every coin is unique but people want to focus on just one area of a coin usually. Buying a photo book is fine, but you need to do two things with it:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Read the written descriptions as well and use them predominantly, with the photos as examples. Always remember that the photo you have of a VF morgan is only ONE type of a VF morgan, one could put together 100 more VF&#039;s, and they all would look different.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. GRADE! Practice makes perfect, look at HA or similar and blind grade coins over and over, learning from your mistakes. There is no substitute to actually doing it to make yourself familiar enough with the process. I have graded a lot, and still go through this for any series I am not familiar with, since each US series is unique in their grading. Luckily, for ancients, the series are nearly identical.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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