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SWANNY

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  1. SWANNY

    Silver £2 Marconi proof

    me please
  2. Can you post a bigger picture to help grade it , Thanks
  3. SWANNY

    1897 penny

    Could this start me off in the penny gang PM sent
  4. SWANNY

    1897 penny

    Can I purchase this one please
  5. What would you grade this one as ?
  6. Can you please help with the grade of this 1816 sixpence
  7. Looking for the above coin , must be in box with cert (spink 4953) Thanks....
  8. SWANNY

    Henry VIII Groat mm Arrow

    Very nice , wish I had one like it....
  9. Has this coin been cleaned or dipped , why is the surface like it is ?
  10. This all makes me think that all I have is a highly polished normal coin It has no toning, and mirror like surface
  11. SWANNY

    Spink catalogues

    Thanks for that , just purchased
  12. SWANNY

    Spink catalogues

    The Spink 2016 book was just released a while back
  13. SWANNY

    Help grading this Florin

    I have this 1849 florin and would like help with its grade please
  14. SWANNY

    Help grading this Florin

    Tried to take a picture with the camera perpendicular to the coin , but it shuts out all light and I get a dark image Tried with the microscope camera , bur can only focus on a small area. Must buy a new camera
  15. SWANNY

    COIN DAMAGE

    I was told on here Seeing that the coin is a Gothic Crown, it should be authenticated because of all the fakes out there
  16. SWANNY

    COIN DAMAGE

    If you have read my previous posts, and know the story of this coin, please DO NOT post any names, or company names on this thread I have been in communication with the company that rejected my coin for grading, I am ok with the failed result, but I am not happy with the returned condition of my coin, it looks like the coin has been "tooled" (see picture). I have photos of the coin before being posted to the company (with no damage), and a photo of the coin in the slab when it was returned showing the damage (which proves the damage was not caused by myself removing it from the slab). It has been tooled in two places, but pictures of the other tool marks are hard to get, and not as bad as the marks in this picture. So my question is , how much has this affected the value of my coin (max book price £3,000) Please remember NO names in this thread Thanks.....
  17. SWANNY

    Was this coin a PROOF ?

    What's a proof coin? A newly minted proof coin is also Un-circulated, however it is the way it is made that causes a difference in appearance and qualifies it as a "proof". To understand this, let's look at how coins are made. Coins are produced when two dies strike a blank piece of metal with tremendous force. One die is engraved with the front (obverse) design for the coin. The other die has the back (reverse) coin design on it. A proof coin is made with a specially polished and treated die! By treating the die in a special way, the coins it produces have a different appearance. Modern technology allows the high points on the coin design to be acid treated (on the die). The background (field) design of the coin die is polished, resulting in a mirror-like look on the coin it strikes. This gives the finished coin a frosted look (frosting) on the raise parts of the design, with a mirror like finish on the background. This contrasting finish is often called "cameo". (See picture above.) On some older coins a cameo appearance is quite rare. The attribute "CAM", when added to a coin's description, means cameo appearance. "DCAM" means deep cameo, and indicates the cameo appearance is strong and easy to observe. Proof coins are struck twice, or more! Not only are proofs made using specially treated dies, each coin is struck two or more times by the coin die. By striking it more than once the metal is forced into all the crevices of the die, thereby giving a very fine detail to the image on the coin. This fine detail does not appear on some non-proof coins. I think this covers it................................
  18. SWANNY

    Was this coin a PROOF ?

    I have a very nice double florin, which I think may have been a proof , what do you think ?
  19. SWANNY

    Was this coin a PROOF ?

    Thanks for the help Just one last question , how do you tell if a coin is a proof ?
  20. SWANNY

    COIN DAMAGE

    I would like to agree that a TPG should not harm a coin, but you can see from the pictures that the scratches on the left of the coin are new, and the scratches on the right are an old wound been opened up again. You can see by the pictures that the new scratches were not these pre grading This was my first and last time sending a coin to a TPG , another lesson if life learned
  21. SWANNY

    Was this coin a PROOF ?

    That's what I thought, its a real shame as the obverse is stunning
  22. SWANNY

    Was this coin a PROOF ?

    The obverse side of this coin looks like it was just minted, the other side is a different story
  23. SWANNY

    COIN DAMAGE

    The picture pre grading was a scan on my printer that came out at over 6Mb, and as I can only upload 500Kb I had to reduce it In this process it lost all it colour. Please replace the word "Tooling" for "Scatching" This picture is another pre grading picture
  24. SWANNY

    COIN DAMAGE

    After reviewing my pre grading picture , I agree there was some kind of old damage on the right hand side, but its not the rejecting of the coin I am moaning about, its the tooling of the coin surface in their tests that I don't agree with. There was no damage to the coin on the right hand side of the coin , but this area has been tooled. If you think this has not devalued the coin, then I will have to live with the damage caused by the TPG
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