Learning How To Grade Properly A Coin

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pirgah Valued Member Brazil 115 Posts	Posted 02/23/2018 2:57 pm I´m trying to learn how to grade a coin. Even with my visual impairment problems I´m pushing hard trying to begin evaluating coins. Please consider the following coin, pictured below: 1724 Brazil MMMM gold coin. Obverse: Some minimal wear and scratches at the cross. Reverse: Clear signs of wear at the center, specially on the shield, and at the right of shield, after the five flowers, a sign of scratching (maybe a cleaning process). Some yellow spots on points, which I don´t know what it means. At least for me no sign of mounting. Minimal bumps on the rim. As I don´t have rim photos, I would say that this coin is a VF one. What do you think about my evaluation? Report this Post to the Staff

paxbrit Pillar of the Community United States 992 Posts	Posted 02/23/2018 4:37 pm I'm going to call it an XF, as all parts of the design are still raised, and fully legible. Detail is still nearly fully intact. For a VF, I would expect to see more wear at the dentition around the rim, on both sides, and design elements being entirely worn to a blur. You're right, it may have been cleaned. It's a very nice coin. How did you certify it to be genuine? That would be my main concern with such a nice example from 1704. Report this Post to the Staff
pirgah Valued Member Brazil 115 Posts	Posted 02/23/2018 5:47 pm Hi paxbrit. Thank you for your inputs. It´s not my coin, and date is 1724. According to an Heritage´s auction an AU58 similar coin was sold by more than Us$ 30,000. I think I was a bit conservative, because is a too expensive coin. Report this Post to the Staff
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