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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 715924, member: 16510&quot;]<b>no one really makes them or has made them they have evolved</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No one really &quot;makes them&quot; or has made them they have evolved from hundreds or thousands of sources and practicable experience over the last 150 years at least.</p><p>They are more a combined theory of thought and hands on opinions than anything else and it is &quot;a work in progress&quot; as such.</p><p>Grades are often based on the numbers of coins that have been seen and even today not all coins have been seen, or at least not seen in the same time frame where they can be compared to all the others.</p><p>We depend on industry experts that have seen hundreds of thousands of coins over the course of many decades.&nbsp; These experts have seen more coins than 99% of the rest of us ever will.</p><p>We depend on these experts to filter that knowledge down to us and for the most part it is a big help.</p><p>The one thing they cannot tell us how to grade is eye appeal, that is of course in the eye of the beholder and where you or I can buy coins that fall out of the norm.</p><p>Grading is not that hard overall.&nbsp; The easiest grades to learn are AU-58 through MS-65 IMO, the hardest VG through VF.&nbsp; Plus it depends on series that is something often overlooked.</p><p>Many people get hoplessly dead locked into thinking they can grade better than the experts, they can&#039;t!&nbsp; Many also stay continually frustrated by thinking that coin grading ought to be somehow like science or math, it is not - if you want exact calculations coin grading will always continue to frustrate you.</p><p>You have got to get used to many shades of grey.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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