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Here's my photos of the coin that arrived yesterday. These photos look more like the PCGS rather than the Spink photos, except that I'm unable to capture the reflective proof surfaces and some of the high definition of the proof strike in the obverse's hair, wreath, and ribbon details.

At long last the final few coins from my 1899 set the Maundy coins thanks to @Colin G. for supplying them for me.all have been entombed and graded. Let here what you think guy please.

Catalogues are often very slow to catch up with reality - 1728 and 1731 crowns, neither of which exist, were listed in Coin Year Book (and possibly elsewhere) until at least the 70's. They were given values only about 20% more than the other George II YH crowns.

So a relevant question whilst on the subject of conservation, what is the actual difference when a TPG does this and someone at home perhaps going through a similar process? If a TPG picks up on this it gets a body bagged label stating "hairlines cleaned" why are TPGs allowed to do this and it's ok, yet John Doe gets a cleaned label. The other gripe i have is to do with the Matt proofs wiped at the mint, i got a PF62 grade for hairlines and IMO it was better than a lot i've seen in that grade, but Catherines also has hairlines on the REV from cleaning and gets a 66 grade, so are we talking favouritism towards certain submitters?

For what it's worth, I think your pictures convey the actual coins very well and would much prefer seeing them as they are than with the 'improvement' filter applied

The information is contained in the Royal Mint Annual Reports which started in 1870.

Another "not a penny" coin, yet another halfpenny on a farthing flan

The only way people can go against the establishment is to put their money where their mouth is. If you want a healthy local economy (which is what most of the protest votes are about), you have to support it. That means not having strawberries with your Christmas dinner, buying goods produced within your country and not necessarily demanding the cheapest option, i.e. using the five pound shop and not Poundland. Isolationist and protectionist as it is, there aren't enough jobs to go around because of production efficiencies and labour costs, but that is the goal that people want even if they can't articulate it. A truly healthy local economy (and people do mostly live in a local vacuum) has a workforce that is close to full employment. Money generated within communities that can be used by the same people so that nobody feels left behind. In that environment it also defuses the immigration issues because virtually everyone is doing passably well. It is this sense of community that globalisation has largely killed off.