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1698 Half crown grading opinions please.

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As the title. Following the discussion on Azda thread can I have your opinions on grade please on this half crown. I dont mind slabbed coins and i am thinking of submitting it.

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ms61-ms63 

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Nice overall appearance, very pleasant. The field toward 5 o'clock has some friction as do the high points. I am more in the 58 camp.

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I consider the 1698 to be the most available date of the series. Your example looks well struck. My concern is over the quality of the fields and that could be just in the image and not the coin. I would not be in the MS camp- the thread captures the problems of trying to grade from an image 

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Lovely coin. It should be a keeper 

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Thanks for the feedback. The fields actually look much better in hand and this was broken out of an ANACS slab before I bought it. At the time I felt that it had been undergraded as did the seller (obviously) but also the guys from Baldwin's on the next table.

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AUnc, or GEF at the very least. Beautiful coin. (There is the usual reverse weakness probably caused by  the boldness of the portrait).

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It was graded MS64 by PCGS

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5 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

AUnc, or GEF at the very least. Beautiful coin. (There is the usual reverse weakness probably caused by  the boldness of the portrait).

Exactly my thought before I saw your post.

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