Because the actual number is likely incorrect, not the definition.
Perhaps you need to review PCGS's own definition of Proof [70] if you want to be perfect: "The PCGS 70 grading standard DOES ALLOW for "as minted"...
Can't argue with Rob.
Yes, I agree with that bit. However, would you appreciate the opinion of Mr. Steve Hill who has seen this in person? Or how about Mark Rasmussen?...
While I agree, the grade is inordinately low IMO. I have also seen them to variably grade proof and specimen coins of GB. Please check the picture...
OK, this coin graded PCGS Proof63DC. The lines are on the flans and in hand not seen. That adjacent to the crown on the reverse is a die and/or...
Well, if it should come time to sell, the numerical grade is critical to price achieved. It is slabbed now in a grade that really does not make...
OK, this is an Halfcrown from the famous "Baldwin's Basement" of the Good Ole Days. I will tell you it is as nice as I've seen and precisely why I...
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Probably the wrong place to post, and I consider myself a Christian but sitting beside the grand cenote at Chichen I had one of the most spiritual...
Excellent. These RRITANNIARs have always seemed a bit contrived as rarities for the reasons you've pointed out. I do confess to having an 1868 3d....
The earlier Britannias were "standard", or came as reverse proof coins. I too wonder about Britannia mintages as if you look hard enough, there...
I am def. in the AU camp, the OP pictures are "pie-plate" sized and in hand would not be so prominent. This is right up my alley as I used to do...
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Nice post and beautiful coins there! What was the grade of the 5 sov. piece? Was it also a "66"? I got the 1937 Sov. in PCGS Proof 65 Cam from the...
Yikes, I need your bank account!
Lovely half sov there. Not IMO rare but scarce at 66CAM, and esp. if the price “civilized”. Prices on all proof earlier Brit gold have gone wild.
If the reverse is similar and there aren’t hairlines not obvious on photo, it likely would go 50, with chance at 53.
Please note that I did locate an Uncirculated (U) 1980 Ten Dollar coin - must be quite rare as I still have seen no others from 1977-1980 in...
The coin has extreme relief not even fully shown on the below. Also the reverse with ?nonsensical runic inscription around edge: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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