PCGS Certifies 1831 British Rarity

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Submitted to PCGS for grading at the Long Beach Expo, was this 1831 gold five-pound pattern coin. For the year 1831, no crown or five-pound coins were issued for circulation. Yet the Royal Mint did indeed produce such pieces, but only as pattern issues.

This coin is listed in many references, including W&R-270 where this exact coin was cited, ESC-272, KM-Pn99, Montagu-1086. This piece is even more special in that it is pedigreed back to 1887 when it sold from the A. E. Copp Collection privately to the outstanding John Gloag Murdoch Collection.

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ajaan

WOW!!

ChopmarkedTrades

Article says it was assigned PF63 Deep Cam. Looks higher than a 63 to me based off the TrueView, but in hand it could be a different story.

Abuelo

If that coin is 63, based on image, there is no hope for anyone on this Earth. I saw pictures in the Pogue catalogue that were many points higher with more marks. Of course as mentioned, is based on images...

7Jaguars

I've seen worse grading than that on some major Brit coins....

Rexford

Coins, especially proofs, cannot be graded based on images such as the above taken in direct lighting. All hairlines and many contact marks will be obscured.

SYRACUSIAN

Yeah, but PCGS can be extremely strict sometimes. Don’t we all know that?