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Here's what it says in Krause's Standard Catalog of World Coins Pete: "The Kingdom of Sweden issued copper plate money, heavy and cumbersome square or rectangular coins ranging in size up to about 13 by 25 inches down to less than 3 by 3 inches, from 1644 to 1776. The kingdom was poor in silver and gold but had rich copper resources. The coins were designed to contain copper bullion in the value of the silver coins they replaced, and were denominated as one, two, four, etc. dalers in silver mint or silver coin. Although sometimes classed with odd and curious money these were legal tender coins of the realm and although used and exported as bullion, they circulated domestically and were essential in the commerce of Sweden and Finland for more than a century." Mine was made from cannon bronze but they are also found in copper. The biggest was a 10 daler at almost 20kg. This one's my copper ½ daler from 1743. Unsurprisingly, Sweden were the first country in Europe to introduce banknotes.

Someone here mentioned that PCGS and NGC only use one grader for each submission, not according to this walkthrough, they use 3. Anyway, as much as i'm getting from the video is that it's based on opinion and no exact science behind a grade, so if anyone wants to send me $30 and their coin i'll happily give you a grade, i'll get the wife to give me a 2nd opinion before i send it back

I know everyone has their own ideas on this topic and I have been trying to obtain acceptable photos for some time. Finally I have found something that seems to work. The coin below was photographed by a Lumix DMC-TZ20 camera without any illumination save the light in the room being a small table lamp which was shadowed where the coin was situated by my printer. The Lumix was mounted on an Aldi Maginon tripod and set on IA focused on the coin to fill as much of the field as possible. The photo was taken using the 10 s. delay to avoid movement. The f stop was 6.4 and shutter speed 1/15 s.. I have tried before with extra illumination and using the macro setting which proved unsatisfactory with bright highlights on parts of the coin and poor depth of field

Last one Gone to California ............The Power of the forum Thank you.

They are 'dating back to 1971' though. Surely, anything so old MUST be rare…..

Sound advice Stu. Copies abound, so definitely worth sticking with reputable dealers.

Very interesting. Will look into that to see if that could be what this is.... ****Update***** while looking into the information bagerap gave me I stumbled across the following page: http://www.coincoin.com/srCB.htm I then looked up in Krause, not quite as indepth as the above site but seems I have a piece of Cambodian Tical Coinage - 2 PE (1/2 Fuang) from the rule of Norodom I and dating to 1847-60.

They are scarce above very fine and although only a flaw penny collectors always want one. Just got to keep looking at dealers lists in low grades they are anything from £15-£50 depending on very good/Fine/very Fine. I was talking to a dealer though a couple of weeks ago who sold a couple in UNC last year and i will keep looking

Here is the 1951 Penny I got graded at CGS UNC 85

Paul does make a valid point, he wants a service that can verify his coins as he's buying them, further confirming his assumption of grades and of problem free coins, and that CGS at the time were the cheapest. If there is any real reason to slab a coin aside from trying to increase it's value, this is it! It's no different to having a car check service - you pay for someone to confirm that the car is problem free and not hiding anything you can't see easily, the value doesn't increase on the car but you're paying for the verification and peace of mind.

At which point, in any of my posts, have I said I had got these slabbed for commercial reasons and by that I mean to turn a quick profit and resell? Everyone seems to be going off at a tangent here. The primary reasons I sent them to CGS were: 1) To check my grading, as a total newbie I wanted to see how CGS would grade them against the grades I had in my head, hence me posting my grades on the initial post. Whether you agree with CGS/PCGS/NGC/whoever it was to make sure I was picking out relatively problem free coins. Some of you have been collecting or dealing in coins for years and often seem to forget that for newbies like me spending £50, £100, £200 is a lot. CGS 'were' the cheapest option to get a TPG to look at them at the time. 2) Recommendations from active forum members who had expressed that they had were happy with the results form CGS. Yes I had read some of the negative comments as well but speaking with some of the members on here who use CGS I felt reassured that I wasn't making a massive mistake (This was pre takeover etc etc) These coins are going to sit in my collection for a long long time and yes, I am sure I will upgrade my 'mid level coins' at come point, however for now this exercise has served its purpose. It has helped validated that I am not buying dipped or messed with coins, it has demonstrated that my grading isn't a million miles off with George V Half Crowns and now they will sit in my collection for the foreseeable future