Posted 03/20/2012 06:17 am
Nice coin!
According to Krause's Standard World Coin Catalog and my newbie judgement:
VF because the corners of some letters and numbers appear a bit blunted, but almost all detail appears to be visible.
If the corners of all letters and numbers are sharp (which is a little hard to tell from this photo) then this is by all means XF...especially since there is such nice detail in the crown, which is , I presume, a focal high point.
By the way, I have read here that some dealers will say "world coins are graded
more strictly" ...which is actually a ploy to cheapen any coin you sell to them...beware!
In reality, they are simply graded as objectively as possible, regardless if they are worth ten cents or ten thousand.
If you want a buyer to know it is considered authentic by experts in the industry, send it to a TPG that is reputable...
Unless you are TPG with an axe to grind? Or whether that guy had an arguement with his wife that day? Just sayin'...nobody's perfect! Still, a good TPG has a much narrower range of subjectivity (on average?) than most folks (with obvious exceptions as seen elsewhere on this forum...just see the 'you vs XYZ TPG'....
IF you want to sell it FAST send it to PCGS...they are very very conservative...ANACS is about average, the others, read around here...search "what TPG do you like?" or some such thing...best of luck!
By the way, one member here sent known fake 8 Reales to a prominent TPG and they deemed it authentic...and he contacted them and had an interesting conversation regarding this...the guy has hundreds and hundreds of fake 8 Reales and is writing a book about it...so read on, read on, and REALLY learn as much as you can...
According to Krause's Standard World Coin Catalog and my newbie judgement:
VF because the corners of some letters and numbers appear a bit blunted, but almost all detail appears to be visible.
If the corners of all letters and numbers are sharp (which is a little hard to tell from this photo) then this is by all means XF...especially since there is such nice detail in the crown, which is , I presume, a focal high point.
By the way, I have read here that some dealers will say "world coins are graded
more strictly" ...which is actually a ploy to cheapen any coin you sell to them...beware!
In reality, they are simply graded as objectively as possible, regardless if they are worth ten cents or ten thousand.
If you want a buyer to know it is considered authentic by experts in the industry, send it to a TPG that is reputable...
Unless you are TPG with an axe to grind? Or whether that guy had an arguement with his wife that day? Just sayin'...nobody's perfect! Still, a good TPG has a much narrower range of subjectivity (on average?) than most folks (with obvious exceptions as seen elsewhere on this forum...just see the 'you vs XYZ TPG'....
IF you want to sell it FAST send it to PCGS...they are very very conservative...ANACS is about average, the others, read around here...search "what TPG do you like?" or some such thing...best of luck!
By the way, one member here sent known fake 8 Reales to a prominent TPG and they deemed it authentic...and he contacted them and had an interesting conversation regarding this...the guy has hundreds and hundreds of fake 8 Reales and is writing a book about it...so read on, read on, and REALLY learn as much as you can...
