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Valued Member
France
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Hi there Could someone shed some light on the " F" just under the date in the close up I have taken of this coin as this does not get mentioned in the Krause World Coins book that I have and what grade would you give to this coin?    Thanx for a excellent site |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
651 Posts |
The "F" stands for Fraser or James Earl Fraser who was the designer of the coin.
Ooops, had to edit this message when I realized I forgot the grade, my opinion is VF.
Edited by Ken_3567
03/17/2007 07:48 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7123 Posts |
The coin IMO looks to be F to VF and I agree with the explaination of the F designers initial.
Metalman
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Valued Member
United States
50 Posts |
I would grade this coin Fine. By 1936, the Philly mint was no longer having strike-quality problems, so there is no reason to believe this coin was weakly struck to begin with. The horn is not fully outlined, and LIBERTY is beginning to merge with the rim. All that said, there's hardly any difference in real value between Fine and VF for the most common dates like this. If this were, say, a 1924-S, then it would be graded by a TPG as VF+, but for a common 1936, it shouldn't grade above F-12. The "F" is the designer's initial. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4589 Posts |
I grade it a Fine as the full horn is not quite present. Nice coin though and great pictures Sinbad
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Valued Member
 France
98 Posts |
Thank you all, Thank you Jim I am just getting used to my camera, experimenting a bit, and I only use a 20 watt desk top lamp with a mirror to reflect the light to where it is necessary.
TY
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4589 Posts |
I need to put some of my french coins on here to see what you grade them, exspecially the Vichy ones seem to be hard to grade
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Valued Member
France
98 Posts |
Hi there, Jim you do that I just got my " Monnaies Françaises" this is one very good book as they supply a good guide to grading their coins with photos.
So looking forward to test my skills on French coins.
TY
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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EarlyUS had it right on the grading of this coin. It's a 20 at best!
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Posted 03/17/2007 11:27 am
