ANA Launches "The Grading Game" Online

I hate this sort of thing. It's nothing more than a trick. Once they have your details you are on their mailing list and will be spammed for the rest of your life. I never used to worry about this sort of thing but more and more websites use this "Marketing Tool". Maybe I'm just getting old.

not what I expected at all...a game with the grade covered and you have to enter what you grade it and see the real grade would be more helpful...this game is just useless, no grading skill is built by guessing until you match 2 pictures.

I think it is kind of cool. Almost anyway


1. It can get kids into coins and grading if they are trying to get better.

2. It can help adults. It isn't just matching like pictures. You are supposed to try to find two coins that have the same grade...they do not have the same date and mint mark...so it isn't just memorization. So if you remember one is AU, you find another that you consider AU, you go back and find the first.

Granted-- I think it would have been a MUCH better tool if they just showed 20 images without having to turn them over and said, "Match up the two AU, match up the two VG, etc."

The whole memory game part makes it cheesy and hard to use.