Grades in...

[Sylvester]

Well as a test I decided to send some of my coins off for slabbing at CGS (I'm not usually a big slabbing fan, but I like the idea of their archival photo service and I was considering whether or not to send some of my rarer and more expensive pieces off for slabbing for that reason).

So the test pieces, which also nicely deals with rarer current coins that need some protection from the environment.

I'm delighted with this one (I don't have it in hand yet but from the tracking system, it's been given an EF65, I had graded the piece as EF myself, so it's nice to know they grade in the same ball park as me!)

A dot to dot '92.

[scott]

i got a dot to dot, but not as good as that.

never tried the service... how does it work, i have a few rares

[Sylvester]

i got a dot to dot, but not as good as that.

never tried the service... how does it work, i have a few rares

It's pretty straight forward actually, simply register a membership (free), print off a submission form and fill in the details required, coin, date, type, remarks, value etc. Pick from a number of possible service types. The cheapest if 9.99, archival with photos is about 11.50 (forgive my lack of pound signs, cos that button's broke on my keyboard!), obviously it's kinda useful to send coins that have a value that's higher than 9.99! For the purposes of this though I decided I'd rather risk losing or being dissatisfied with a more 'common' and cheaper coin than say an Early Milled coin in the post.

I haven't received the slab in hand yet so I can comment upon the quality of that just yet.

[Peckris]

Would someone kindly tell this disinterested decimaller exactly what a "dot to dot" is ? That coin looks perfectly normal to me.

[DaveG38]

Would someone kindly tell this disinterested decimaller exactly what a "dot to dot" is ? That coin looks perfectly normal to me.

Peckris

The dot to dot type is the rarest of the 1992 10p varieties. I think about 1% in total. The identifiers are that the 'L' and 'I' in Elizabeth and the 1 in '10' all point to border beads. In total there are 5 types for 1992 with this one the most difficult - I'm still looking!!

[scott]

i think i have 2 of those

its about 600k-1 million odd.

i have a couple of the scarce 1992 small head 20p's a commowealkth games £2... and the olympic one too

post is part of the problem... of course for now money is an issue.. i'm building my collection (found some good rare bits by accedent so far) so rather put money to the coins, then once i accumulate some nice bits.. send em

i want to know how secure the postage is, replacing F169 penny and VF 1858 small date farthings are not exactly easy...