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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2827231, member: 1892&quot;]I dunno about &quot;polished;&quot; that could well just be an artifact of your lighting. Coins are harder to photograph accurately than they might seem, and one has to be careful when evaluating imagery from a new poster as a result. </p><p><br /></p><p>The grade I offered was to the European standard, which is held to be rather more strict than that applied in the US. That said, it seems that PCGS and NGC tend to hew more closely to that stricter standard when grading coins from Great Britain, so I suspect it would see XF40 or so from a US TPG (surfaces aside). Here are a couple of slabbed XF examples from Heritage to compare to:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/world-coins/great-britain-victoria-florin-1849-xf45-ngc-/a/231712-64219.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/world-coins/great-britain-victoria-florin-1849-xf45-ngc-/a/231712-64219.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/world-coins/great-britain-victoria-florin-1849-xf45-ngc-/a/231712-64219.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/world-coins/great-britain-victoria-florin-1849-xf-cleaned-/a/231638-64250.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/world-coins/great-britain-victoria-florin-1849-xf-cleaned-/a/231638-64250.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/world-coins/great-britain-victoria-florin-1849-xf-cleaned-/a/231638-64250.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515</a></p><p><br /></p><p>None of this means I don&#039;t like the coin. I&#039;m particularly fond of Victoria issues, regardless of country, and currently collecting Canadian copper ones. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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