Help required... desperately!

[Red Riley]

Hi All,

As part of my book, I have put together full grading guides to bull head halfcrowns, cartwheel pennies, the George & Dragon reverse (with and without garter), the standing Britannia, but can I do the same for some of the commonest coins around?

I desperately need images of the following reverses:

QE2 3d F

QE2 6d F

QE2 Scottish shilling EF, F

KG6 Scottish shilling F, Fair

KG6 sixpence 1949-52 F

Wren farthing VF

If you are unsure, a good guide is that for the cupro-nickel and brass coins, the most worn you are likely to find will be F, but the 50% silver coins could well have sunk to Fair. Also VF is about as low as a wren farthing will get.

As these coins are likely to be more or less valueless, you may prefer to mail them to me, so that I can take the photograph. I will return the coin plus your postage as soon as I have recorded the image.

Many, many thanks

Derek

[scottishmoney]

Kind of hard since most of these coins didn't have a long time to circulate ala the Victorian pennies.

[Teg]

Any of these help?

[Red Riley]

Crikey erm... (small boy in a sweetshop moment). I'll have that one, that one and that one!

All joking aside this looks really useful. I have blown one or two coins up to destruction and certainly I would like all the bottom line (bar the farthing) - reverses only. The farthings are a little dark to discern, but essentially what I am looking for is a coin, probably an early one with clearly discernable wear and if possible a good tone.

I am not overly technical on these things, but Chris has requested a quality of 300 dpi if possible. No need to worry about backgrounds etc. as I am learning basic Photoshop and can generally sort that out for myself.

Thanks Teg, I am eternally grateful.

I do take the point that it is rare to find some of these denominations in low grade - VF being about the most common. I do however have for example, a 1956 florin which is palpably fine, and some George VI 50% silver coins which have plumbed the depths all the way to fair, although it is a moot point whether such coins are anywhere near as worn as their 'fair' counterparts minted 100 years before. Nonetheless, the trade generally insists that these coins exist in such low grade, despite there being no financial advantage to them in that being the case.

[Chris Perkins]

I'm sure Teg could post the bottom row to you? Better to have an many consistent pictures as possible from the same camera.

Actually, could you email a few of your recent pictures, just so I can check they're ok and remove the backgrounds etc?

[Teg]

Hi,

posting them makes sense - send me the address in a message.

I included the Obv. pics to give a better overall feel for the grade.

I have chosen 3 of the farthings, most of the worn Wrens don't have

a good tone!

Teg