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Ok Thanks for your help guys.

I would say it was more like Heads - F and Tails - EF.

Florins yes. Half Crown? You can make out hair strands when you have it in hand and the obverse is crisp. When compared to the examples on http://wybrit.com/info/Grading.html it is better than their 1917 Farthing, F and, imo, comparable to their 1917 Sixpence, VF (heads slightly worse, tails slightly better)

And here they are

Here it is

Sorry, they are more like F.

Thanks Tom & Coppers.

Alas, yes sorry no 1933 Penny so the list should be Halfpennies 1902-25, 1925-67 Pennies 1902-22, 1926-32, 1934-40, 1944-49, 1951, 1961-66 Shillings 1911, 1914-17, 1920-66, 1968-71 Sixpence 1914, 1918, 1920-67 Florins 1914, 1919-33, 1935-51, 1953-62 Half Crowns 1920-51, 1953-67 The Halfcrowns are (as afar as my newbie grading skills allow me!) prob Poor up to 1927 and then miraculously switch to VF/EF from 1928 and increase up to aUnc.

British Coins kept in Western Publishing Company Inc "Great Britain Coin" Folder Series Halfpennies 1902-25, 1925-67 Pennies 1902-22, 1926-40, 1944-49, 1951, 1961-66 Shillings 1911, 1914-17, 1920-66, 1968-71 Sixpence 1914, 1918, 1920-67 Florins 1914, 1919-33, 1935-51, 1953-62 Half Crowns 1920-51, 1953-67 As you would expect the earlier ones are more worn and the newer closest to Unc. It has both English and Scottish versions and also some doubles for some years. If anyone wants piccys or info about specific ones I can post these.

As discussed in another thread ( http://www.predecimal.com/forum/topic/8701-shilling-grading/ ) I have a small collection of mainly British coins that I want to sell and would appreciate views on its approx valuation so that I don't get ripped off. The largest part of it consists of a collection of the British Halfpennies, Pennies, Shillings, Sixpence, Florins & Half Crowns from c.1910 - 1970 that were taken out of circulation from the 1940s on and kept in stiff card collection folders like this one; In addition there are also some coins in the following categories; Commemorative Issues Misc other separate UK Medals - tatty Tokens Misc Other - foreign etc I will detail each category in a separate thread to avoid confusion and cross talk.

Thanks Paulus & Peckris. Will start a new thread with details fo my collection to see what estimates we can come up with.

I feel a headache coming on! To cut to the chase I want to sell my coins without getting ripped off so want to have a fair idea of their catalogue values. This would be easy if there wasn't so much variation in value between conditions! Is there an easy way I can do this? If I started a thread and went through the collection chunk by chunk would I get good advice here?

In terms of valuations do people pay imbetween prices, i.e. if a coin is worth £10 VF and £20 EF, would a gVF coin exchange hands for £15?

Would it be correct to say that it is the detail that is most important and not the colouration? The following page has a supposedly EF 1886 Halfpenny and it looks pretty grotty to me colour-wise but admittedly has sharp detail. http://wybrit.com/info/Grading.html

Thanks. Here is a piccy of their Heads sides The 1914 Head side is a bit better than its Tail side, whereas the 1940 one is worse imo.