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Message:: [QUOTE="valente151, post: 1546674, member: 27564"]I have and use both. I personally like the bower's book just as much, if not better than the ANA book. The bower's book includes pretty much the same written information as the ANA book, and the pictures are clear and in color. But Petronious, just a heads up, a book alone won't teach you how to grade. The best advice I can give is to go to a show and look at as many coins as you respectfully can, and look at what the TPGs gave them (not always perfect, but fairly close). Learn the differences for each series that you can. Thats how I have, and still am, learned. The ANA Summer Seminar also does a good job too with their grading classes. I ave taken two and learned alot. The other thing that I have learned to do when grading is to not look at the definitions for each series individually, but rather the general definitions for each grade across each series. Then, if I know what an MS coin looks like, I can determine a grade by judge looking at overall wear. MS grades are hard and definately not going to be taught by a book. Those definately need in hand practice. I know I went off topic here from your question, but just some friendly advice.[/QUOTE]