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Kopper Ken Pillar of the Community United States 3402 Posts	Posted 07/27/2011 8:52 pm I was on a dealer's site and he mentioned that he goes by the "old" published Charlton standards? Not the standards in the newer catalogs. I think the edition he quoted went back several years? Is Charlton the generally accepted grading standard? Is there a book similar as we have for individual US coins, photograde/ANA grading standards, that is published for Canadian coins? Does the RCNA publish standard for each coin? Any direction would be appreciated. Thanks. KK Report this Post to the Staff

DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9872 Posts	Posted 07/27/2011 11:21 pm "Standard Grading Guide For Canadian&Colonial Decimal Coins" by Charlton & Willey is the most widely accepted grading guide,and was discussed here very recently. Report this Post to the Staff
tfred Pillar of the Community Canada 627 Posts	Posted 07/28/2011 08:12 am I use this website to help me grade my canadian coins. It has pictures of most monarchs in all grades. Does anyone else use this site? And what are your thoughts? http://www.coinoisseur.com/GradingCoins.html Report this Post to the Staff
cownick Pillar of the Community Canada 677 Posts	Posted 07/28/2011 12:58 pm Upon reading the uncirculated section, I was disappointed that MS 62 and MS 64 are not discribed. In my opinion, I would rather have the MS60 example over the MS 63 example. It looks baggy to me. Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 07/31/2011 2:39 pm Grading has evolved somewhat, especially with the prevalence of Third Party Grading firms. The "old" grading style is not assigning numbers to the grade. So coins would be labelled as Good, Fine, Very Fine, Extra Fine, Almost Uncirculated, Uncirculated, Brilliant Uncirculated and Choice Brilliant Uncirculated. Split grades would be the better grade with the prefix 'About' assigned to the coin. So a VF-30 coin would be called "About EF"... Some dealers still grade their 'raw' coins this way, I grade my international coin stock (i.e., non-Canadian or American coins) this way as well. The book DBM mentioned is probably one of the better ones. It is a skill that should get better with time, when you have seen lots of coins of various grades. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
kitkat1858 Valued Member Canada 371 Posts	Posted 08/07/2011 11:48 am I recently got my hands on a copy of the "Standard Grading Guide For Canadian & Colonial Decimal Coins" by Charlton & Willey. Looking at the Victorian Newfoundland 5 & 10 cent grading criteria, I was surprised to see that the wrong obverse photos were used. Instead of using the traditional ones that are seen on every dime and half-dime from that era, they use the obverse from the 50 cent piece. Does anyone know if this some kind of strange printing error that was corrected in subsequent printings? Report this Post to the Staff
dialog_gvf Pillar of the Community Canada 1581 Posts	Posted 08/11/2011 4:54 pm @tfred: Yes, I use that site myself. They have some mistakes (IMHO), but overall it is a good guide. Report this Post to the Staff
DBM Pillar of the Community Canada 9872 Posts	Posted 08/11/2011 11:18 pm kitkat1858,newer editions are corrected Report this Post to the Staff
MrCanada Pillar of the Community Canada 650 Posts	Posted 09/13/2011 10:28 pm Charltons is great, the variety section at the back is great well worth the investment of 20.00. Report this Post to the Staff
guppie1160 Valued Member Canada 307 Posts	Posted 09/25/2011 3:05 pm Quote: "Standard Grading Guide For Canadian & Colonial Decimal Coins" by Charlton & Willey the version I have for this is 1965 and IMO it is the better guide for grading....though I have noticed that it seems to be stricter than what people are doing recently...I like stricter though for my collection. I have found also that people seem to be giving coins a higher grade (not as strict) as they used to be has anyone else noticed this. Report this Post to the Staff
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