Coinage Kids

Give it a Grade

- Marcy Gibbel

In an article by Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez, he states simply, “Coin grading is the process you go through to judge a coin’s state of preservation based on the amount of wear it has.” That might be an oversimplification, but it gets the point across: Wear—how much rubbing a coin has undergone—is the number one mark of a coin’s grade. Knowing how to grade your own coins is one of the most important skills a coin collector can learn, but it is a skill that takes practice and time. When you are able to start grading coins, you can:

• more easily determine your coins’ value;