Good book for Grading Liberty seated coins

bestday

Picked a small box of Liberty Seated dimes , quarters ,halfs any recommendations for an illustrative book for grading these coins

Eclectic

PCGS Photograde?

DaveG

I presume these are all circulated, perhaps even well-circulated.

I still use my 20 year-old copy of Photograde, but the images in either the ANA Grading Guide or Grading Coins by Photographs might be better. (I don't know whether they give any guidance on the "in-between" grades - like Fine-12 vs Fine-14.)

There's also a grading guide that Coin World puts out, but I don't see it on Wizard's site.

Link to Wizard Coin Supply

COALPORTER

Got pictures? Not often these guys come by the
"small box" load.

BustHalfBrian

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LindeDad

Hope your find of raw coins is better than most raw I ran into. That series date back to the cleaning as preservation days.

bestday

<< <i>I presume these are all circulated, perhaps even well-circulated.

I still use my 20 year-old copy of Photograde, but the images in either the ANA Grading Guide or Grading Coins by Photographs might be better. (I don't know whether they give any guidance on the "in-between" grades - like Fine-12 vs Fine-14.)

There's also a grading guide that Coin World puts out, but I don't see it on Wizard's site.

Link to Wizard Coin Supply >>



The Liberty Seated coins were stored in an old Cuban cigar box.. the dimes are pretty well worn , quite a few quarters are in good shape ,many with all feathers visible on the reverse of those quarter coins.... thanks .. ...no camera yet... but storage box looks like from the 1950's.

thisnamztaken

<< <i>PCGS Photograde? >>



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Barberian

Photograde stinks in my opinion. Many of the coins are difficult to see and some of the higher grades appear to be more heavily worn than lower grade examples.

coinkat

PCGS did a book years ago that has photos of many series- that might help and would be a decent starting point

bosco5041

I have both the books "grading coins by photographs" by Q. David Bowers and "Making the grade" By coin world. They are both good guides but the pictures are better in the "Making the Grade" book in my opinion.

kevinj

I would suggest use the Red Book as a basic road map of what to generally look for.

Then group your coins together that are similar in grade. By doing this, you can compare similar coins to see which ones are better, amount of wear, location of wear, detracting marks, and so on.

If there is a local coin show or shop, and you find certified coins in similar grades, study them to get a better picture of what you should see

You can also use online auction sites such as Heritage Auctions and there one million plus coin auction archive to view photos, many enlargable

When I wrote a book on Lincoln cents, I studied 10,000 circulated cents to study what characteristics should exist for a given grade, learned what the median was for each grade, what was above and below and so on.

Point being, it is not difficult to study your coins and learn for yourself what should be expected. Once you get a camera, posting a photo here, you can check your findings.

Another option is to write the LSCC club and check to see if there is a local representative that can assist you, they might be able to show you some of the basics in grading Lib Seated coinage.

Kevin

shorecoll

In terms of Photograde, some of the old editions have better pictures than the newer ones.

Boosibri

Heritage archives

astrorat

<< <i>Picked a small box of Liberty Seated dimes , quarters ,halfs any recommendations for an illustrative book for grading these coins >>

There is no single book for grading the Seated Liberty series. Some of the comprehensive books on denominations within the series address how to grade and some of the grading idiosyncrasies of that denomination.

Any of the current general books on grading US coins will work as a starting place. PCGS also has a great smart phone app and online grading guide.

CoinZip