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If You also have some Photo editing software, You can easily crop away The unused background. Nice coin

In Theory The G over O Must have happened near the year change or thereabouts as There is a 1677/8 with The Same problem, if You want to call it a Problem that is.

I wouldn't touch them either, it either appeals or you leave it alone, it won't get better being artificially improved

Please do as i don't think it possible to dip/clean a proof without ruining it somehow.

Would be nice to know where or WHO is trying to sell You this. Genuine ones Are selling around £3.5k.

There Are some things books can't teach us John. I would also be in The dipped camp, lustre seems to be Strippen from Parts of The coin and possibly legt a Little too long As can be seen from just beging The back legs of The horse. Seems to be high grade though, Leaving it by The window a few months might help it retone quicker.

The colour of it, it's far too bright, especially noticable on the OBV of the coin,

It does, but again sadly has been cleaned

The 1902 has been cleaned/polished

I might have to put my GEF on there then if that's the prices in lower grade

Same here, had no problems with it on the aye pad through kindle app. I left the Spink book alone this year as there was no significant increases from the 2014 to 2015 book to justify paying another £30, so i'll perhaps wait until either the 2017 or 2018 editions before buying another

Funnily enough shagreen, probably one of the commonest crowns but also one of my favourites.

Seems ok on The aye pad although have The same as our new admin on the aye phone

Very strange, Never had too Do that before

The silver coin was a normal picture with a large kb, The 2nd i had to Upload into photobucket because i couldn't upload into The Next post As it prohibited me from Doing so

I have one of These which is proof like

Another techie question regarding the new forum software. Previously we could upload 500kb pictures per post but that now seems to have changed to 500kb per thread, so if I've uploaded a picture into a thread at max 500kb i couldn't add another picture again into that Thread, why has this changed?

Both images taken with an old Olympus 7.1mp camera with no tripods or extra lighting just a steady hand and daylight

Use natural daylight and highest makro settings.

The 30 has been stripped of all toning leaving it looking like a stone which is what happens when it's left far too long in silver dip, I don't think this one has anything to do with photography unfortunately

You might be misinformed about the pampering ego part as I was replying to Nordle on a totally different subject, he had just commented on your post in which I replied to it, it had nothing to do with this post

And this lovely specimen from Goldbergs graded as MS63 which is 1 point less than the eBay coin you mentioned Mike, which is for sale at over £1000 i might add, And so the MS63 sold for $525, which does add much kudos to my point of why would I pay another £700 for a point difference in grade, silly eh http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=1875+halfcrown+&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&thesaurus=1&order=0&company= Thanks also for your input Vicky, I have been stating your same observation from the start of this topic, but Mike knows best. It's a debate and opinion Mike, no hard feelings ?

One mans grade may not be anothers. A 2 point difference on a TPG slab would NOT encourage me to part with an extra £700, check the TPG threads if you require grading arguments. As I stated, if a coin was BU and a dealer was selling for near Spinks book then why would it not have sold in auction for said same price? Or the other end of the scale, why should a dealer pay 50% for it to be able to push it out at Spink book?

If the coin was already choice why would'nt it have already sold for near Spink? Geez

But did it sell for £1100 as Spink suggests it should? in fact have you seen ANY sell for a Spink quoted price, this was where I jumped in at stating that SPINK BOOK PRICE IS A GUIDE and not what should be used as advice for a bid OR MARKETING TREND