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Why Is It That Some People Say XF, And Others Say Ef?

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 Posted 07/06/2015  11:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oh my florin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The difference between EF and XF is what they stood for. EF is Extremely Fine while XF is generally used in the context of Extra Fine. There are arguments that Extra Fine (XF) is misleading compared to Extremely Fine (mainly in terms of defining how much is Extra?)Both EF and XF are the same intended grade however how it is expressed is what causes the difference. In Australia we use Extremely Fine however XF seems to be an American thing.
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I guess same thing goes for people who say PO2 and FR2.

I rarely ever hear people use PO2, it's mostly FR2. I know on TPG's they use FR2 and not PO2. Same goes with FR1 and PO1. Usually you see PO1 on TPG's.


PO is PO1 on the Sheldon scale and not PO2 it is Fair 2 . Just to clarify .

Not on the original Sheldon scale, it isn't. I learned the Sheldon scale as a child from the 1983 Charlton catalogue, where it was taught that the three lowest grades were "Basal State" (BS-1), "Poor" (P-2) and then About Good (AG-3). "Fair" didn't get a guernsey. The terminology of the lower grade-numbers seems to have been changed to Poor-Fair-About Good sometime in the mid-1980s, with the advent of the TPGs. So I suspect that it is "older collectors" who will refer to "PO-2".
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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I can't believe this has stretched out to three xtra long pages . Stop before it xceeds four extra long ones..
Too late. Three posts into the fourth.
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Soon to be exrated or xascerbating certainly xhausting !
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EF for those 60 and older
Xf for all younger
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Three posts into the fourth.


Soon enough it'll be 5. :P
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Xciting this xtremely long and exacting thread ".............stopppppppp. They both mean exactly the same thing.
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