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This is a mini-rant at the over-grades sometimes given, please do not read on if your blood pressure is already too high. On what planet is this coin remotely MS (Mint State), let alone MS63? I would struggle with GVF (with problems) for this common date: It is a farthing listed on eBay.uk http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GEORGE-II-1736-COPPER-FARTHING-LUSTROUS-TOP-GRADE-SLABBED-NGC-MS-63-/281584625878?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item418fc068d6 Can anyone explain this massive miss-grading (in my view), or is it just another case of buyer beware, buy the coin not the slab, TPG inconsistency/laziness/vested interest?? Makes a mockery of our beloved hobby

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well if you buy it.. i'll give you a quid for it >.>

Meh ... I think it will depend on the coin and collector. For example years go I bought this: Not cheap, but reasonably scarce (I've see 11 others come up for sale in as many years) and an upgrade on what I had. I decided that the improvement to the grade was worth compromising on the dirty big dint and I could live with it. Then more recently I was browsing the digitised BNJs and found ... .. my coin! With the dint! In Grant Francis' 1918 article (which was used to classify Tower shillings up until Michael Sharp's comprehensive review of the series in the 1970s)! OK, it's still a coin with a dint. But it's a provenanced dint allowing me (well, Rob actually!) to track it back to the F A Walters collection sale of 1913 and forward to Lockett (Part IV). And to me, that makes a difference! .