1947 50c Ml Cr - Grade Opinions

Looks good to me too: SP-66

It looks like SP-65 to me.

minimum sp 64-65

@kbbpll your reply leads me to believe that the assigned grade is much lower than SP64.
Unbelievable!
Can't wait for the reveal.

I guess I waited long enough to reveal.

SP62. So not horrendously under the lowest guess on here, SP64, but it still made me wonder. If you look up the cert# and download the TrueView yourself, it's better quality than the one I put through the Image Optimizer. I'm surprised no one said "cleaned", but maybe when I said "SP" originally, everyone took that to mean straight-graded. Which it is.

I bought the Cook specimen a year ago, knowing it was graded SP, UNC Details Cleaned. I'd wanted one since I was a kid, so it was a 60th birthday present. Since then, I've looked at every image of George VI specimen 50c I can find. I have pondered the possibility that their "cleaned" designation on mine is in error - that they mistook die polish for cleaning. A large number of them are filled with die polish lines, even SP67 examples. So as far as "roller lines", I'm not sure if that's a factor when grading. There are also a lot of struck-through little bits of whatever they polish the dies and/or planchets with. Mine under a scope has two that are retained struck-through - the little bits of wire brush are embedded in the coin.

As far as the SP62, I was expecting at the grade that it would have a lot of chatter from mishandling. All I can see is what looks like a couple light scratches through the hair and perhaps the cheek. I guess we'd have to see it in hand to really know.

Another interesting observation with these is that mine is clearly concave on the obverse and convex on the reverse. Similar to the concave/convex designations for the 1948 specimens. It seems like the 1947 ML CR might all be concave, so maybe that's why it isn't noted anywhere.

Thanks for the replies and putting up with this obsession of mine. :)

Sometimes you have to consider the fact , that the TPG is not correct .
Wait ! No that never happens ! ( Sarc intended)

47P7, it's not mine, although I do have one. I was just trying to figure out the SP62 grade on this one. As a possible point of interest, I asked the seller about it, and they said "This coin has some very fine hairlines.. As a SP grade, it should not have those fine lines.. An MS coin can not be used as a comparison." I think they're referring to the extensive die polish lines, but I don't see where that should impact the grade. I do understand that SP might be graded differently than MS. FYI the seller's BIN is $CAD3500.