do they offer grading classes
Firstsgt10
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was wondering if there are grading classes available?
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jesbroken
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Welcome to the forum. One of the best available free educational grading sites offered is by PCGS Photograde. Especially for beginners. Great photos of most all U.S. Coinage. Try it and compare your coins and trust me you will learn. Take a dozen coins and study the most minute details along with the most important(which you can learn from books). Start off with circulated coins and graduate to Uncirculated(much harder) and then on to Proof coins. This is, of course, only my opinion and hopefully you will be provided with many more later today and tomorrow. Best of luck.
Jim
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Welcome. The troops will soon be here. ANA offers some online. We’ll let the more knowledgeable speak to others. Also many books and on line of course.
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@Firstsgt10 .... Welcome aboard. In-person training is the best.... you can get it at the FUN show, or ANA shows... There will be more inputs here shortly. Cheers, RickO
Thank you for all the feed back
Found the classes helpful.
But if you don't use the skill you can certainly lose the skill.
Each series has certain characteristics to identify.
The book "Making the Grade" is worth every penny, as it shows in color overlays the important high spots/fields and considerations that graders take into account.
Modern quarters and proof sets are cheap to obtain and send in for grading. Practice makes perfect and there is a tuition we all must pay. It carries over into other series and fun while waiting for the class.
I keep a grading set of Morgan, Lincoln cents, and Buffs.
Even obtained a few problem coins... (willingly and unwillingly)
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I just bought this one. Wizard coin supply. Good place good price. $10 less than others
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I attended the two-day ANA Grading class just prior to the 2020 FUN Show, and I then posted my review here: https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1030984/ana-s-coin-grading-class-at-fun
The class was led by a PCGS grader. My understanding of grading owes an awful lot to what I learned first-hand in that class.
As referenced above, ANA will be holding that class again just prior to this January's FUN Show -- and they offer it here and there throughout the year.
My strategy is about collecting what I intend to keep, not investing in what I plan to sell.
If you are a golfer you swing a club 500 times a day. If you are a professional photographer you take 500 photos a day. You see where this is going. People that can grade coins and if not spot on be damn close grade a lot of coins every day. If you want to be good, you know what you need to do!