One coin was a cool $100, the other $110. Let's see if the consensus can get it right! Which coin is the more expensive piece?
Without looking anything up I like the first one as it's older, higher grade but both have a great reverse. $100 or $110 is so small of a difference it's almost the same.
Nice buys, both of them. I would think there would be higher-grade examples of that Australian commemorative, at least in 64/65. Looks like it's a rotated die, too.
Both are nice examples. My Siegs catalogue (from Denmark) lists the SE 1897 2 Kr at ~ $60 USD in unc; my Maccas catalogue (Aus) puts the Florin at ~$182 USD in UNC. Neither country so finely divides UNC grades from 60-66--at some point all this "grading" breaks down...
Many see it that way, yes. Micro-grading is very much an effort to create new markets and a way to increase the values of coins. Sure, people will tell you otherwise ("but the collectors REALLY wanted it!", etc). About those catalogues: Do you know of other European coin catalogues? If so, would you mind sharing the publishers, or links to where we could find them?
Yup, it's a common coin in UNC. In fact, both are common, though the Florin is much harder in UNC than the 2 Kronor. BUT, the 3 point spread in grades nearly evens the score between the two.
I'm sure there are catalogues for every country. My Siegs covers Scandinavia, which is all I collect from Europe.
Looks like the survey has accurately sniffed-out the more expensive coin. The silver Florin was ten bucks more.
The Swedish one is very easy to find in higher MS grades, the florin, not so much. Both are nice either way
I think the Australian is more expensive in that solid ms grade. The Swedish one is high, but it's more commonly found in mid unc grades. That's my guess. The mintages and survival rates are more important than the few decades apart in age
