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To Grade Coins From Scandinavia Differs A Lot From US And Canadian Coins!

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 Posted 08/07/2016  8:35 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Prncoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
There are common mistakes done by many Americans and many others when they grade coins from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, with more.

Here our grading is much more conservative compared to how US coins are graded. In generel our grading is a least one hole grade lower, that means a fine is VG, VF = fine, XF = VF, MS 62 = XF - and more.

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 Posted 08/07/2016  11:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dd27 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
What is the best guide to grading Scandinavian coins? (Book, website, PDF, etc.)

Thanks!

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Hi Mark,
That was a great question. I am new here so I cannot post links, I'm afraid.
First thing you need to know is the fact that even though people in Denmark and Norway do more conservative grading - in Sweden they are often even more conservative than this. In Sweden what they call 1+ which is VF, could easily be a US MS60-62. There is at least one serious coin club in Sweden (Malmų) - where they grade like this.

To grade modern coins from 1874- from Norway, there is a dealer whom have a www site where the different coins are graded in all grades. There is also another dealer from Norway whom has 'translated' the US grades to Norwegian/Danish on his website.

For coins from Sweden I have not found the same information on a www site, but in the Swedish book "Myntboken", by Archie Tonkin, the grading to their modern coins can be seen on pictues.

For Danish coins, well. There is a small grading book on the market, but it is written in Danish only. On the top of my head this is what I am able to come with for now. It is late here in DK.

- And I am sorry to say my English could be much better.
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Thanks Prncoins!

You're English is very good by the way. :O)
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Thank you. I try to do my best. And for your information, I will say that almost all coins from Scandinavia are over graded by our form of grading - not only on ebay, but also by the US grading companies - even the most serious.
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