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Learning How To Grade Properly A Coin

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 Posted 02/23/2018  2:57 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add pirgah to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Iīm trying to learn how to grade a coin.

Even with my visual impairment problems Iīm 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 donīt know what it means. At least for me no sign of mounting. Minimal bumps on the rim.
As I donīt have rim photos, I would say that this coin is a VF one.
What do you think about my evaluation?

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 Posted 02/23/2018  4:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add paxbrit to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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.
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Hi paxbrit. Thank you for your inputs. Itīs not my coin, and date is 1724. According to an Heritageīs 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.
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