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Scotland's two great exports tramps and whisky- usually these are found together

Neil, generally speaking it is very difficult to find a raw crown size currency coin which would grade CGS 80, not mentioning grades 82 or 85. This is because the CGS benchmark grading scale assesses a variety of grading components for each coin submitted some of which such as marks (small scratches, surface abrasions, bagmarks and all other contact marks) are likely to score higher (thus reducing the overall grade) on larger coins as they have a large area to be subjected to the marks than smaller coins. I have just check CGS population report and from 364 currency crowns (1887 – 1902) only 6 achieved grade 82 and only one grade 85. I think this is representative sample, especially as most of the crowns being submitted for grading are being considered to be UNC by their owners. However if you think that there is “many more of this common crowns that would reach better grade than 82”, please pick up one, send it for grading and if it grades 85 or higher I would happily pay well above the book price – you can make easy profit! I agree that estimate is high (and I am not going to bid on this one) but I appreciate that the seller is not keen to let it go cheaply for reasons mentioned above. Especially as quality (rather than rarity) is the buzzword at the moment.

The 125 farthings went for £3,300

2nd one