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Help with Grade PLS

coffeycecoffeyce Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭
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Here is a 1896A French Indo China Piastre
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Chris

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pictures are improving! You have a ways to go yet (as do I), but that is much better!

    I would put that coin in the very high VF range, say VF35, to be safe, based on what I can see in the pic. XF40 is probably not out of the question, either. Some of the areas I would want a closer look at, like the face/breasts/crown are a bit overexposed and hard to see, but I think I'm comfortable enough sticking my neck out and saying XF or very close to it.

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  • coffeycecoffeyce Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭
    Well I feel very good then because i paid 14$ for it and krause says $100.

    Chris
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,662 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nicely done.

    IF it is real. There are a LOT of Chinese fakes of this type. A LOT.

    Beware.

    Most are crude and easily spotted.

    This one is good enough to have potentially fooled me, if it is a fake. If it's phoney, it's a better phoney.

    Maybe you got yourself a steal. I await the verdict of the others.

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  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,460 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Unfortunately, this one has been scrubbed to the point of BB status. Finding nice originals and authentic examples should be easier than it is for this series.

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