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 Posted 01/23/2012  5:19 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add briank to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I just recently ordered the Coinsworld Making The Grade book. Wondering what peoples opinoin of the book is and is there a better one recommended or will this one do? I have Q. David Bowers Grading coins By Photographs but would prefer a little larger photos. Thanks for any input
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There is a book called "photograde" that is pretty good.
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Does that book have fairly large photos , is it in color and do you know the author? Thanks
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Brian . . here's a link to the paperback edition on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Photograde-Of...p/0974237159
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go to Amazon or half.com and look up coin grading books and you should find a few there. Photograde is a good book to get you started.
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James Rudy's book Photograde is pretty darn good, but the photos are in B&W only, unless they updated it since my old paperback copy from the early 1980's. Still for it's age a ton of great information is contained in it. James Halperin (of Heritage, Steve Ivy back then) authored "How to Grade U.S. Coins", upon which the grading standards of the two leading third-party grading services PCGS and NGC were ultimately based. It is now out of print, but often found inexpensively on the used book market.

Have you tried the PCGS website (also an iPhone app) http://www.pcgs.com/photograde/

Free and quite nice!
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Pcgs Photograde and Heritage Auctions are a free source. You can blow up pics, the size of your computer screen, of the graded coins and the price paid current and past.

As a paid computer source PCGS Coin Facts is the greatest for coin info.
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