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Guess the grade

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Vickysilver has asked me to post a couple of coins and see if you can guess the grade, it might be good practise to leave your hollered coins here eventually to see if anyone can get it right (without looking them up of course) This is one from VS

 

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1 minute ago, azda said:

Vickysilver has asked me to post a couple of coins and see if you can guess the grade, it might be good practise to leave your hollered coins here eventually to see if anyone can get it right (without looking them up of course) This is one from VS

 

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Is that a CU-Ni penny? Bloody nice coin.

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And another from VS, bit of an error this one

 

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And one from me that i just had the grade back for yesterday

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For the 1D's PF 65 & 66

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3 minutes ago, azda said:

And one from me that i just had the grade back for yesterday

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 images aren't big enough to properly see, but i'd guess Au58

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2 minutes ago, mhcoins said:

 images aren't big enough to properly see, but i'd guess Au58

Adding the whole slab would have made it far to easy :rolleyes: but a good guess Alan

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Those pennies are both copper nickle strikes, they are IMO graded very low but quite beautiful without wear or ticks. Give up a couple of grade guesses and I'll post tomorrow. 

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I would say that the 1967 is slightly higher grade than the 1965, although not quite as good a strike.  Can't see any reason why either would be less than MS 64.

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On 1 September 2016 at 9:52 AM, Nordle11 said:

Is that a CU-Ni penny? Bloody nice coin.

1965 - MS 62

1967- MS 63 - Do they down grade for a mis-strike ? 

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On 1 September 2016 at 10:01 AM, mhcoins said:

 images aren't big enough to properly see, but i'd guess Au58

MS 55 for the Gold Coin but the pics are low res.

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15 minutes ago, The Coinery said:

MS 55 for the Gold Coin but the pics are low res.

It was graded at AU58 or British EF. MS grades start at 60 up to 70

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2 hours ago, azda said:

It was graded at AU58 or British EF. MS grades start at 60 up to 70

My mistake. I don't really use the foreign grading systems. Lovely coin !!!

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1 hour ago, The Coinery said:

My mistake. I don't really use the foreign grading systems. Lovely coin !!!

CGS had a table of their grades and their equivalents on the LCs website, i think it's since been taken down, but if you hit the link below you"ll see the American grades and the British equivalent along with the others from other various European countries

http://www.pcgseurope.com/grading/comparison?l=en

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56 minutes ago, azda said:

CGS had a table of their grades and their equivalents on the LCs website, i think it's since been taken down, but if you hit the link below you"ll see the American grades and the British equivalent along with the others from other various European countries

http://www.pcgseurope.com/grading/comparison?l=en

I happened to have made a copy of the table from their site a couple years back.

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3 hours ago, azda said:

CGS had a table of their grades and their equivalents on the LCs website, i think it's since been taken down, but if you hit the link below you"ll see the American grades and the British equivalent along with the others from other various European countries

http://www.pcgseurope.com/grading/comparison?l=en

Looking at the table in the link, I do find it rather amusing that the grading terms in foreign languages can't be taken literally either. 

I can read very little Japanese and hope that I haven't translated too badly:

Sheldon                Japanese Grade         My Translation                                          

AG3                      収集不適品                  Not suitable for collection                          

MS63                    未使用品                     Goods that have never been used      

MS66                    完全未使用品               Completely unused goods                        

MS68                    空前絶後品                   Never seen before and will never see again

 

 

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Well, the 1965 was graded 64 and the 1967 at 62. I can't for the life of me see friction, dings, hits, wear, or other damages. 

 

They do not downgrade for off-metal strikes (OMS). I have a pet collection of these, some errors, and some patterns. If anybody ever had decent specimens, I'm always glad to give them a go (shameless spamming there!).

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Both sides look in the same condition. I am saying UNC would you agree? What number would you give it?

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The Sheldon scale has a VF range that extends from VF20 to VF35

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Basically Fine to gf in UK grades.

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That's what I thought... so the LC conversion scale is wrong & should read VF30 and VF35.  

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