UK 1 penny toned

Another quick grab and purchase. 1967 1 penny MS 65 RB, top pop. None better! 5/0

 

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cool toning too.

 

Super cool. You are a lucky man to have such a gem!

 

It sure is an excellent example, but I have to have my coins raw. The following was taken from circulation years ago, before the change to decimal, by a friend of mine, living in the UK.




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Outstanding penny, @Morgandude11. The toning really enhances the coin!

 

I don't understand it. In the UK you'd struggle to give it away - who pays to have these graded?

I'm not a fan of the toning either I'm afraid, it looks unnatural.

 

Not that nice you wouldn't.

 

I just meant they're so common as to have almost zero retail value.

 

Only if you ignore the quality of a coin and just assume they're all the same

 

Thanks. That is why I bought it. Working on the Penny typeset registry. This one was clearly in an old blue album, with the two sided album target toning.

 

Not to hijack your toned penny thread Morgandude, but I love some modern GB coins too.This set was put together and the cardboard holder toned the coins pretty heavily. The coppers had thick black around the rims which acetone helped a lot. The 5 and 10 pence coins are really quite nice for raw coins from a built set as well.
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Wow, they look fabulous.

 

It's a beautiful example to be proud of.

 

Thanks! I got lucky when I picked the set for pretty cheap, less than $10 I think. The plastic case was all beat to heck, but it did its job!

 

I know what you mean, but presumably they didn't cost all that much. I don't understand the obsession with grading at all, so why not grade a good example of a cheap coin? If the only reason for grading is to somehow increase the value of your investment, then you might as well buy gold bars.

Interesting too about how it got that toning. I've never in my life seen a British copper toned any other way than Cucumbor's, whether after circulation or left shiny in a box. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 

Absolutely. I'm sure I've got plenty that other people would sniff at.

Regardless of the toning, I don't get the logic of spending e.g. $15 on grading one of the millions of remaining UNC 1967 pennies in bags and rolls. They're all pretty much the same and for the money you could of had 50 of them.

 

They aren't. First the OP coin has a beautiful look to it which no where close to all the same, and secondly you'd probably be shocked at how low most of them would grade if sent in.

 

I wouldn't be. I've had 61s that were better than 65s and most of the MS whatevers I have seen were 'unc with wear' frequently going down to EF, or in TPG speak 'Mint State'. It's a lottery, because if it wasn't there would and could be no point in resubmitting.

 

That is a matter of opinion. I don’t see any of your 61s that are better than 65s, so we are comparing apples with oranges.

 

Sure it's a matter of opinion(s) - there's no right or wrong way to collect because it's a hobby and each to their own. You collect other peoples' opinions, I collect coins based on my own opinion.

I was replying to the previous poster who said you would be shocked what some would grade at - but I wouldn't be based on the coins I have owned and compared.