Attempted PCGS Australia Grading Conversion

I think it all depends which country the coin comes from.
Quite frankly I have seen some bloody awful Morgan's in MS slabs and some great Aussie coins in AU slabs
The consistency of the grading of US and Canadian coins is pretty consistent with Sheldon But for other countries They seem to think those coins are "Inferior" for some unknown reason .

For this reasoning I fully agree with Sap as far as US coins go

I will in about 57 days, Mark called it at MS64 I called it at MS66.
We will wait and see

That's the one, I have been coerced into getting the bloody thing slabbed so Mark and PP are taking care of business for me
If it comes back less than MS64 I will feel vindicated.
If it comes back MS 64 or better , then I will just have to eat crow

I have a 1942 m threepence that I was considering getting slabbed






as is typical with this year it has a weak strike but heaps of lustre in the low contact area's
if what your saying is true I should get a high ef score n it. why wouldn't I get it graded? if I can place the coin in a high grade slab it will sell for more on ebay compared to me selling it based on my pictures (average pics at best compared to in hand appeal)

well normally I would agree with you trout but the thing is , from what I have heard on this site, the strike does not affect the grade. rather it is the wear and this coin has heaps of lustre and cartwheels nicely. I believe that I could get a good ef to aunc based on that. if I did then the book value would be 5 - 10 times what I paid for it. that makes it worth it dosnt it?

see that's the problem, it has one ding and mint lustre all over, I just cannot get this on camera as I don't have the skills/equipment to take a good pic. I do however know how to look through a magnifying glass and the difference between a cleaned coin/mint lustre and weak strike/worn out coin and I assure you if I could put this in your hand your opinion would change. this means that for me to get the best $$ when I eventually sell this coin I can
a. learn to take better pics and spend $$ on better equipment or
B. get it graded
that's just how I see it

I would love to agree with you, but in my experience this is simply not what the American TPGs do. Maybe everyone with low-MS slabs are simply bad photographers, but too many such coins have what I would classify as very light wear on them. For example (and not wishing to pick on any one dealer here), can someone please explain to me why the dark spots on the high points of this 1915 shilling are not wear? Because they look like wear to me. I wouldn't grade that coin better than aUnc because of them.

It might also be enlightening to read this conversion chart published by CGS-UK which I just found, converting American slab-grades to British grades. Now British graders are even tougher than ours - they've downshifted the American grades by two full grades, but they agree that American "MS" ain't always Unc anymore: British Unc begins at MS-63.

PO-1 = Coin? What coin? It's just a washer!

I have utilized this phrase with the word 'slug' instead of washer.

I do have a washer in a 2x2 in my hoard. There are a number of WTHs in my coin/token/currency collection.

Ah, my devil note. You would shudder at the description of evil trying to roil into our realm.