Help Required for 1927 Half Crowns

[ozjohn]

Two half crowns I have collected over the years. Both have good obverses with the King's ear intact. The reverse however shows wear/poor strike on the to the top of the shield lions and Scottish lion. An opinion on this wear  as against poor strike would be welcome. Again an opinion on the grade of these coins would be appreciated 

[Peckris 2]

I would say poor strike, as the lettering on the garter is perfect, and that's among the first areas to wear.

Difficult to grade without seeing in hand, but I would say the second one is AUNC.

 

[ozjohn]

1 hour ago, Peckris 2 said:

I would say poor strike, as the lettering on the garter is perfect, and that's among the first areas to wear.

Difficult to grade without seeing in hand, but I would say the second one is AUNC.

 

Thanks for the comments I wasn't sure as wear and poor strike are hard to distinguish sometimes as i was thinking of upgrading.

[Sword]

I agree with Peckris that the loss of details is virtually all due to weak striking. Otherwise, wear would be very obvious in other areas like the garter letterings. And with these 0.50 silver points, areas of wear would show discolouration. If there is still lustre on the top of the shield area, then it's another indication that it is weak striking.

You can still try to upgrade to specimens that are fully struck!

[ozjohn]

8 hours ago, Sword said:

I agree with Peckris that the loss of details is virtually all due to weak striking. Otherwise, wear would be very obvious in other areas like the garter letterings. And with these 0.50 silver points, areas of wear would show discolouration. If there is still lustre on the top of the shield area, then it's another indication that it is weak striking.

You can still try to upgrade to specimens that are fully struck!

Ive been looking for a long time but even some very expensive MS 64 examples still showed  signs of poor strike / wear.