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Reimaged copper halfpenny

wybritwybrit Posts: 6,953 ✭✭✭
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The scan has long since exited my recycle bin...

1858 halfpenny, raw.

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Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.

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    coinpicturescoinpictures Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭
    Ooohhhhh, pretty! Thank you for entering me in the giveaway. image

    Is it as dark in real life?

    Testing my novice grading abilities: AU55-58? (there looks like some wear on the reverse breast as well as the shield and some garment drapes, or is that softness of strike?).
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    cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,333 ✭
    Awesome image. What are you using for a camera?
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    wybritwybrit Posts: 6,953 ✭✭✭
    Testing my novice grading abilities: AU55-58?

    I think it might muster MS. I've seen worse end up 62 or 63.

    Is it as dark in real life?

    The color is a bit off. It is brown but has some bluish toning that makes it appear darker in the picture.

    Awesome image. What are you using for a camera?

    That's a compliment, coming from a master. I use a meager Olympus Zoom D-560. Brown copper halfpennies seem to be the best subject for it.
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    CoinAddictCoinAddict Posts: 5,571 ✭
    Gorgeous coin, Tom.image
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    UdoUdo Posts: 984 ✭✭
    Terrific coin and picture! image
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    spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    Nice work Tom, have to agree on the MS, I got 63's that look no better.
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    coinkatcoinkat Posts: 22,790 ✭✭✭✭✭
    63 brown without hesitating... nice coin and terrific picture.

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    theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    Wow! Really sweetimage
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    AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    Y'all know what I think of it ... image

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    SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,448 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>63 brown without hesitating... nice coin and terrific picture. >>







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    MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,054 ✭✭✭
    Nice halfpence, laddie.image

    Images are images, but coins can be a sight to behold.image

    Wybrit will probably tell you to focus first on Victoria's cheek and top curls for the true state of wear of a Vic copper coin.

    The reverse 'boobie' can be flat just from striking; the shield can be weak from die grease, etc.

    In any event, the presence or absence of fine hairlines on either side has always helped me to delineate real wear from simply "striking" issues. Of course, you have to see the actual coin to ascertain fine hairlines and such.



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    coinkatcoinkat Posts: 22,790 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Excellent grading tips Mac.

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    wybritwybrit Posts: 6,953 ✭✭✭
    Old thread, but new info: the coin came back from PCGS graded 64BN, better than 'kat or I expected.

    I also like Mac's grading tips, so thought this deserved a bump.
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    MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,054 ✭✭✭
    PCGS is very tight on any Young Head copper (at least since 2004, in my experience). Getting a 64BN means your '58 1/2d. is truly a nice specimen. image
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