Coin Community Family of Web Sites Join Thousands of Coin, Bullion, & Money Collectors
300,000 items to help build your collection! Join Thousands of Coin, Bullion, & Money Collectors Royal Canadian Mint products, Canadian, Polish, American, and world coins and banknotes. Vancouvers #1 Coin and Paper Money Dealer Specializing in Modern Numismatics Royal Estate Auctions - $1 Coin AuctionsCoin, Banknote and Medal Collectors's Online Mall








Username:
Password:
Save Password
Forgot your Password?


This page may contain links that result in small commissions to keep this free site up and running.

Welcome Guest! Registering and/or logging in will remove the anchor (bottom) ads. It's Free!

How To Grade Porcelain Coins?

To participate in the forum you must log in or register.
Author Previous TopicReplies: 1 / Views: 1,724Next Topic  
New Member

Philippines
11 Posts
 Posted 09/01/2011  12:18 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Chris269 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Question to all...

How to grade coins we know already ... there are endless forum posts about it . But how to grade a porcelain coin? I have never seen a forum discussion about it.
What are the criteria on how to grade porcelain coins or tokens? Any ideas, links etc?

Chris

Moderator
Learn More...
Sap's Avatar
Australia
16839 Posts
 Posted 09/01/2011  8:42 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There aren't really enough porcelain coins around to develop a separate system of grading for them, yet at the same time the conventional coin grading system based on metal wear is inappropriate. I would think that porcelain coins should be "graded" in much the same fashion as any other piece of collectable porcelain, like a china cup, doll, salt-shaker or other knick-knack.

A "Collectables" forum (I believe that's spelled "collectibles" in America) would probably be a better place to find answers to this, but I imagine that the important criteria besides "wear" are: damage (in terms of chips, breaks and crazing), colour, staining and originality (in terms of attempts at repairing damage).

Judging by this guide on valuing a porcelain doll, they seem to have much the same scale we use for coins - and given the common usage of the phrase "mint condition" to describe things that are "New" or "As New", I would assume their terminology was actually copied from coin collectors.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
  Previous TopicReplies: 1 / Views: 1,724Next Topic  

To participate in the forum you must log in or register.



    




Disclaimer: While a tremendous amount of effort goes into ensuring the accuracy of the information contained in this site, Coin Community assumes no liability for errors. Copyright 2005 - 2026 Coin Community Family- all rights reserved worldwide. Use of any images or content on this website without prior written permission of Coin Community or the original lender is strictly prohibited.
Contact Us  |  Advertise Here  |  Privacy Policy / Terms of Use

Coin Community Forum © 2005 - 2026 Coin Community Forums
It took 0.2 seconds to rattle this change. Forums