Picked up new coin book "Coin Worlds Making the Grade"

lsica · April 4, 2021 11:10AM

Picked up the latest edition of "Coin Worlds Making the Grade". It works well as a compliment to the "ANA Grading Standards" book. The ANA book has slightly better pics, but the CW book has more pics of intermediate grades. The CW book has somewhat more detailed descriptions, including some more info about grading a series in general. Plus it also has maps that show prime focal areas, secondary, and even tertiary and beyond for all series (instead of just the few in the ANA book) which is a big help in differentiating between MS grades. Of course the PCGS Photograde app has the best and most complete collection of photos, but IMHO the lack of text descriptions limits it's usefulness. And although PCGS's YouTube grading videos are superb, having more detailed descriptions in the app text would be a big plus there.

All comments are IMHO of course, YMMV, etc etc