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How about CNG or Stephen Album? The former sold the Mildenhall collection although that was generally first tier quality - and CNG appear to have graded it first with NGC. The latter sometimes has interesting, even raw coins. My sense is that the U.S. market generally is slab-centric though. If it were my collection I would probably slab the very best stuff and sell the rest raw at Noonans or some such place in the UK. Or eBay with a view to drip feed sales over several years with some nice photos and fixed pricing open to offers … I think second tier / raw coins sold quickly will produce steep discounts.

It certainly looks like it been exposed to something. Would it be one for dipping?

Nice info - I hadn't noted that. Normal tide on left; high tide on right

No - it is a high tide as Richard says above. Rather than mucking around with the sea level, much easier identifiers are that the shield almost touches the border beads at its bottom left, and the P of Penny points between two beads. On the common type, there is a distinct gap between shield and beads and P points to a bead. Simples!!

We all have to start from somewhere and what we collect changes with time. Most collectors would eventually want to collect items that at least resemble the "real" coins we can spent.

An example was sold as part of a large group by London Coins auction. https://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=Pastresults&searchterm=$10+British+Virgin+Islands+2000&searchtype=1&red=1 Unfortunately, there isn't really a demand for such items. But modern commemoratives can help people get interested in the hobby.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204853278137?itmmeta=01J19R66GKQ4EAWG8C5J6RZVCG&hash=item2fb234f5b9:g:N4wAAOSwmehmetfM What a bargain - less than £1000 per coin !!!!

What a stunner, and with just a couple of surface marks . 😄 George V half penny 1921 extraordinary tone | eBay

That's AI for you, as demonstrated by ebay's push to allow "intelligence" to create the listing blurb on behalf of a seller. Over the last few months, the amount of bollocks that is being said in coin listings (and no doubt other categories too) beggars belief. Thank god some of us on here still have human intelligence, but heaven help the world for the future... 😩

For the past 25 years or more, nonsense descriptions have been the norm. So how would you differentiate AI from the usual garbage? Indeed, you could argue that up to now the descriptions have predominantly been made by people with artificial intelligence and that eBay is only now catching up. Literacy or accuracy have never been a strong point of eBay listings.

A personal view is that if I can't count the teeth on a date spacing, the coin is to worn to bother with. The D pointing seems to work for me but not always reliable on eBay photos unfortunately. As I say. Gouby AaBb confuses me whereas Freeman's Capital and a numeral is clear cut. Maybe with these pairings we should use an existing Freeman obverse and reverse and then B and 2 for the extras? A logical progression using the accepted Freeman system?