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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John the Jute, post: 542784, member: 17740&quot;]Does anyone have current experience of the difference between grades given to coins in North America and in the UK?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A few days ago, before joining Coin Talk, I surfed the Numismatic Resources pages here, and came across a pointer to a set of articles called &quot;First Steps in Coin Collecting&quot;:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.oldandsold.com/articles02/article1077.shtml" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.oldandsold.com/articles02/article1077.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.oldandsold.com/articles02/article1077.shtml</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Reading them carefully, they seem to have been written by two people--a UK writer writing in about 1960, and a US writer writing in about 1964.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The first article says: &quot;English ratings of used coins tend to differ by a whole category, the standards for each grade being not quite so high. Thus a coin rated only `fine&#039; by an American collector might be judged `very fine&#039; by his English counterpart.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Fair enough. It doesn&#039;t matter much that the two systems be different as long as each is consistent within itself. And it doesn&#039;t matter at all which of the systems is more conservative.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The snag is that another reference--which I have lost <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />--said that the UK system was the more conservative one. That too was some time ago.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And as I gradually extend my collection of Canadian-struck sovereigns, it would be convenient to be able to use North American dealers; so I need to know how the gradings relate in 2009.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Does anyone know?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>John[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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