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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26225893, member: 86815&quot;]Here is a hammered sixpence graded as Details AU cleaned. I bought this at a bargain price from Stacks &amp; Bowers.</p><p><img src="https://d1htnxwo4o0jhw.cloudfront.net/cert/159468959/small/282531150.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Charles I 1638-39 S-2360 Anchor &amp; Mullet/Anchor. Sixpence.</p><p><br /></p><p>The tone is darker in hand than this image suggests and is uniform.</p><p>The reverse sticker states &quot;Genuine not gradable&quot; which again does nothing to enhance its value. For this issue, it is as good as it gets and, if it was sold as raw, it would command a hefty premium for its complete flan and quality of detail. No doubt is has been cleaned in antiquity. To me it is everything I would want from this issue and I wouldn&#039;t have considered buying it at six times the price.</p><p>I paid $160 for this coin plus premium.</p><p>The TPG didn&#039;t pick up on the fact that it one of Briot&#039;s milled issues. All of the better raw ones I have seen have an iridescent blue tone.</p><p>Here is a raw coin currently being sold on Ebay for $1450.00.</p><p>Baldwins have a similar one so they are all&nbsp; north of $1000.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1674932[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>So my answer [USER=153057]@Coinismatics2000[/USER] is probably to leave it raw because of the TPG decide it has been artificially toned you will destroy the value of a decent looking coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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