Posted 07/21/2011 06:23 am
You can call a coin whatever you like as long as you have good pictures showing the front and back of the coin when selling so people can judge the item them self.
If a coin comes from say an Armaguard bag people say "uncirculated from a security bag", this allows for bag marks.
Uncirculated coins are from a mint rolls with very slight marks to the coin from the manufacturing and rolling process.
Specimen is the term for a coin from a set, or packaging.
Proofs are coins with a frosted foreground, also refers to the manufacturing process.
Other grades people use are GEM, choice, choice uncirculated, aUNC etc.
I honestly don't really care for grading stuff as one person view is different form another person. I just like to know where they come from and not there grade.
My tutorial page covers some of the basic terms.
Hope this helps :)
If a coin comes from say an Armaguard bag people say "uncirculated from a security bag", this allows for bag marks.
Uncirculated coins are from a mint rolls with very slight marks to the coin from the manufacturing and rolling process.
Specimen is the term for a coin from a set, or packaging.
Proofs are coins with a frosted foreground, also refers to the manufacturing process.
Other grades people use are GEM, choice, choice uncirculated, aUNC etc.
I honestly don't really care for grading stuff as one person view is different form another person. I just like to know where they come from and not there grade.
My tutorial page covers some of the basic terms.
Hope this helps :)
