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Reported it as a repoduction but not listed as such

The 'lustre' component of the grading would take this into account, the point was made to me that there wasn't a specific category for 'eye appeal'. I also asked about the location of marks, dings etc, and yes, if there are problems in the middle of the face, for example, rather than half-hidden in some design detail, then these would count as more 'serious' problems and the coin would score less. Would it though, bearing in mind lustre has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with toning. You can have a deeply-toned coin with obvious full-lustre underneath. My point is you could presumably have two full-lustred CGS coins, one with ugly toning, and one with beauty personified, and they would both come out of the computer with the same grade? Which would you buy,to me thats the answer just buy on eye appeal

At the risk of sounding stupid how does a coin end up with a reverse which wasnt used for another five years

As a newbie myself all i can say is buy quality And enjoy it if you stop enjoying it stop collecting

I think if they split the premium to 10% for both buyer and seller the seller would take home more as i feel hammer prices would rise AIMHO

That certainly isn't where I got it from, although CGS er... London Coins was certainly involved in its sale! Another thing which faintly irks me about this slab is that the inner capsule part seems to be so oversized that not only is the edge not visible, but the obverse beading isn't either. All my fault ive got my pennies confused, this is the coin I was looking at, I'm a bit surprized it got a rating of UNC 80. Its horrid AIMHO and they want £375 I wouldnt part with half that for it http://www.londoncoins.co.uk/?page=retailv2_details&coin=Penny+1863+Victoria&uin=0001678

An 1894 penny. Quite nice - except for the fingerpriints. They gave it an AU78. I gave it AU60 on the Gouby system (where 60 is the % of lustre). Was that coin on london coins website under "choice coins" if so im amazed it got a 78, it didnt have the eye appeal for me, and graded better than my 1890 which has one carbon spot and only graded a 75

And fingerprints dont seem to effect the grade either P.S whats the coin

Read a fair bit about this but what exactly has happened i would have thought isf the dies had hit each other they would have been seriously damaged

Used to collect stamps and i found whichever way i stored them was wrong.If you handled them you had to be very carefull of that pricey stamp could lose all its value in a heartbeat.So i stopped Coins have the advantage of being more robust,yes handling them wrong or poor storage wont devalue them to worthless in the blink of an eye. In this modern age with houses being smaller i suspect coin collecting will increase as a large collection still requires little space

Nice one I thought those days had gone

I'll go for UNC 85

Do you get everything in the picture

Markio may I say that looks a great collection I cant offer any advice as its way out of my league,but you have reached the best forum for advice, there are a few dealers on here who will be able to help im sure

open picture in paint its very basic but works crop till coin fills most of pic,you can only chop bits of the right or bottom so use the "flip/rotate" option which is found under "image" Once thats done you can resize using the "resize/skew" option again found under "image" then save ......as this keeps your original as well as making a new copy hopefully the file will now be below 150k if not just resize again hth

Urine is full of ammonia i think

What you using to clean, acetone? PS you can spend it any more

Ebay sellers who dont put coins in there correct catagory/ im fed up looking at halfpennys

So 25,000 coins over 6 years at £12-£20 per coin (today's prices) gives a generous estimate of £70,000 revenue per year from coin grading - I'm sure that won't leave much after paying people and overheads! And the VAT man!! Does anyone have a ballpark idea of how many the US TPGs have slabbed (by way of comparison?) NGC have slabbed over 25 million. This is taken from there website FAQ section

Anybody going,what can i expect will it be cramped are there plenty of refreshments etc. Anything else i need to know tia

So what sort of grade is that then http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1907-Great-Britain-One-Penny-Graded-by-NGC-Un-Circulated-Detail-/380585657713?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item589cac4571

From there website click on forum then faq When submitting coins to the service On the submission form, where it says "coin value", what is meant by this - is this the value that I think the Spink guide (for example), would list for such a coin, assuming I've judged the grade correctly, the amount I paid for the coin, or some other value? Obviously this can be quite subjective... Also I have a few coins that, depending on the precise grade might be worth a little less than £200 or a little more - in these cases, should I assume the higher value for the purpose of selecting the service option number? Most collectors tend to use the value they either paid for the coin or what they actually believe the value is based upon Spink or similar catalogue. A good rule of thumb would be what would it cost you to replace the coin in the current market should it be lost in the post (bearing in mind that the Post Office maximum compensation is £2,500 for enhanced Special Delivery). If you have individual coins valued at over £2,500 it is worth the trip to CGS offices. A single despatch of a number of coins to CGS may total more than £2,500. Soaccording to that you can deliver

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1868-PROOF-PENNY-slabbed-and-graded-by-NGC-as-PF-63-BN-/330876879170?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item4d09cc8142 And i still cant see any difference to a unc

Well i gave my coin to my young great nephew his eyes lit up. So a well spent £2