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Can you post a bigger picture to help grade it , Thanks

Could this start me off in the penny gang PM sent

Can I purchase this one please

What would you grade this one as ?

Looking for the above coin , must be in box with cert (spink 4953) Thanks....

Very nice , wish I had one like it....

Can you please help with the grade of this 1816 sixpence

Has this coin been cleaned or dipped , why is the surface like it is ?

This all makes me think that all I have is a highly polished normal coin It has no toning, and mirror like surface

Thanks for that , just purchased

The Spink 2016 book was just released a while back

Tried to take a picture with the camera perpendicular to the coin , but it shuts out all light and I get a dark image Tried with the microscope camera , bur can only focus on a small area. Must buy a new camera

I was told on here Seeing that the coin is a Gothic Crown, it should be authenticated because of all the fakes out there

What's a proof coin? A newly minted proof coin is also Un-circulated, however it is the way it is made that causes a difference in appearance and qualifies it as a "proof". To understand this, let's look at how coins are made. Coins are produced when two dies strike a blank piece of metal with tremendous force. One die is engraved with the front (obverse) design for the coin. The other die has the back (reverse) coin design on it. A proof coin is made with a specially polished and treated die! By treating the die in a special way, the coins it produces have a different appearance. Modern technology allows the high points on the coin design to be acid treated (on the die). The background (field) design of the coin die is polished, resulting in a mirror-like look on the coin it strikes. This gives the finished coin a frosted look (frosting) on the raise parts of the design, with a mirror like finish on the background. This contrasting finish is often called "cameo". (See picture above.) On some older coins a cameo appearance is quite rare. The attribute "CAM", when added to a coin's description, means cameo appearance. "DCAM" means deep cameo, and indicates the cameo appearance is strong and easy to observe. Proof coins are struck twice, or more! Not only are proofs made using specially treated dies, each coin is struck two or more times by the coin die. By striking it more than once the metal is forced into all the crevices of the die, thereby giving a very fine detail to the image on the coin. This fine detail does not appear on some non-proof coins. I think this covers it................................

Thanks for the help Just one last question , how do you tell if a coin is a proof ?

I would like to agree that a TPG should not harm a coin, but you can see from the pictures that the scratches on the left of the coin are new, and the scratches on the right are an old wound been opened up again. You can see by the pictures that the new scratches were not these pre grading This was my first and last time sending a coin to a TPG , another lesson if life learned

That's what I thought, its a real shame as the obverse is stunning

I have this 1849 florin and would like help with its grade please

The obverse side of this coin looks like it was just minted, the other side is a different story

I have a very nice double florin, which I think may have been a proof , what do you think ?

The picture pre grading was a scan on my printer that came out at over 6Mb, and as I can only upload 500Kb I had to reduce it In this process it lost all it colour. Please replace the word "Tooling" for "Scatching" This picture is another pre grading picture

After reviewing my pre grading picture , I agree there was some kind of old damage on the right hand side, but its not the rejecting of the coin I am moaning about, its the tooling of the coin surface in their tests that I don't agree with. There was no damage to the coin on the right hand side of the coin , but this area has been tooled. If you think this has not devalued the coin, then I will have to live with the damage caused by the TPG

After grading in slab

Before being sent to grading