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Interesting. This is a British half crown in VF: 
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Australia
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Tom that is a flawed comparison. You are comparing a large coin with a small coin. details are generally better on large coins
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United Kingdom
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Quote: Tom that is a flawed comparison. You are comparing a large coin with a small coin. details are generally better on large coins Oh, OK. I rather thought it was down to the amount of visible wear compared to a 'perfect' coin fresh from the mint. Therefore grade wouldn't vary with denomination. OK, some denominations were more useful and so circulated more and are therefore more difficult to find in higher grades. But I figured 'conditional rarity' shouldn't affect the grade given. But then hammered coins are my interest. I pay very little interest to the grades given to the coins that interest me by others. They either satisfy me or they don't. This modern stuff seems complicated me, so apologies if I confused things! 
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Australia
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The coin is absolutely beautiful looks EF and I wouldn't object to it being in an AU53 holder tho I wouldn't either be surprised to see it in an AU50 holder.
Edited by oh my florin 06/07/2014 08:21 am
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Quote: The coin is absolutely beautiful looks EF and I wouldn't object to it being in an AU53 holder tho I wouldn't either be surprised to see it in an AU50 holder Yes I believe it will be somewhere in that range 50-53.It'll be interesting to see what it achieves
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Quote: It'll be interesting to see what it achieves Certainly will. For Peter and myself especially! Because I think by British standards it's very far off what it clearly achieves by Australian ones.
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Australia
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We'll be waiting for a while yet,i think.
Edited by appleangel07 06/10/2014 11:08 am
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Pillar of the Community
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Quote: We'll be waiting for a while yet,i think. I'm still waiting for this one to arrive but I'll be sending it over some time in July or August all going well which will give me a result in August or September
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For some more food for thought, this is an example that PCGS graded AU55- I think if you compare the XF40, the coin in question, and the AU55, I think that the OP's coin is in between 
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Australia
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Oh don't tease me jdmern haha. Stevo has that one, me and him were both interested in that beauty tho stevo won the coin haha.
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Quote: For some more food for thought, this is an example that PCGS graded AU55- I think if you compare the XF40, the coin in question, and the AU55, I think that the OP's coin is in between
I personally think this coin was undergraded and should have gone AU58.They might have downgraded it due to questionable colour
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Just received this one and it has good lustre so it's off to PCGS next week  
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Thanks Walter it'll be going to PCGS next week
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