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<p>[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3544654, member: 46237"]You're not going to have much luck finding guides on how to apply US grading to specific world coins. Many countries have their own grading scales and most do not go into the level of detail that we do in the US.</p><p><br /></p><p>I buy many coins from German and Austrian (almost the same as German grading) auction houses and dealers, so I deal with their grading scale frequently.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a table from <a href="http://www.germancoins.com/grading.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.germancoins.com/grading.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.germancoins.com/grading.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]942223[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The site I linked has general guidance on how to grade coins for the German market, which is about as close as you're going to get.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes you will see gut for the lower grades below fine, and also unzirkuliert (unz) in place of stempelglanz. I find the main difference between the styles of grading to be that their fast stempelglanz is almost uncirculated and stempelglanz is uncirculated, but their uncirculated starts at our MS63. Often coins that would be MS60-62 in the US market are in reality graded as low as vz or vz-st on the German scale - from my experience bankfrisch is not really used even though it is on the above table. Also, most countries have at least some acceptance to use FDC (fleur de coin) for gem (MS65) and above, even though it is technically part of the French grading scale.</p><p><br /></p><p>While erstabschlag is used for PL coins, their concept of PL is much more lax than it is in the US. There is no measuring of reflectivity distance. You can simply look at the coin and tell if it is a first strike or not by the appearance of the fields - toning does not prevent this designation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jaelus, post: 3544654, member: 46237"]You're not going to have much luck finding guides on how to apply US grading to specific world coins. Many countries have their own grading scales and most do not go into the level of detail that we do in the US. I buy many coins from German and Austrian (almost the same as German grading) auction houses and dealers, so I deal with their grading scale frequently. Here's a table from [url]http://www.germancoins.com/grading.html[/url] [ATTACH=full]942223[/ATTACH] The site I linked has general guidance on how to grade coins for the German market, which is about as close as you're going to get. Sometimes you will see gut for the lower grades below fine, and also unzirkuliert (unz) in place of stempelglanz. I find the main difference between the styles of grading to be that their fast stempelglanz is almost uncirculated and stempelglanz is uncirculated, but their uncirculated starts at our MS63. Often coins that would be MS60-62 in the US market are in reality graded as low as vz or vz-st on the German scale - from my experience bankfrisch is not really used even though it is on the above table. Also, most countries have at least some acceptance to use FDC (fleur de coin) for gem (MS65) and above, even though it is technically part of the French grading scale. While erstabschlag is used for PL coins, their concept of PL is much more lax than it is in the US. There is no measuring of reflectivity distance. You can simply look at the coin and tell if it is a first strike or not by the appearance of the fields - toning does not prevent this designation.[/QUOTE]
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