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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 8438208, member: 86815&quot;]I think this is a great coin. I have a couple of Anne Shillings which would share the same hair characteristics of a halfcrown. Over here I would grade your coin as Good VF nearly EF. As others have commented, the reverse is better than the obverse. In the UK, we are more fixated about looks than third party graders or the potential of fraud that necessitates grading. Buying a high dollar item would involve sensibly research and knowing your dealer. It is really difficult to find good Anne Halfcrowns and this is a great one so take pride in its ownership.</p><p>Here is a graded coin I bought at auction in the USA last year, I would have bought it without the plastic slab or the quite frankly ridiculous description. From my image you can see the hair detail. I think $175 you paid for a couple of minutes appraisal and a $1 slab is ridiculous and expensive. I have bought a couple of &quot;graded &quot; British coins in the past in the full and certain knowledge that I was buying a bargain and fully intended to crack them open to give the grading judgment to whomsoever the eventual custodian would be after my time is done. My view of the coins at the time was that the grading was inaccurate, possibly because of lack of sight of other examples as I guess most of these guys spend the bulk of their time grading US coins that are generally post 1800.</p><p>Notable exceptions of course are people like Barry Murphy who grades ancients and handles thousands of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the auction house description of my Anne Shilling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anne Shilling 1708 MS64 NGC, KM524.1, ESC-1147. Completely stunning for the typically shallowly engraved, low relief coins of this monarch, this fully lustrous near-gem is razor-sharp in every detail, the silhouette of Anne&#039;s face slightly doubled, and a singular glassiness seeming to drip from the dentils into the fields. An apricot color has further taken up around the devices, accented nicely by die polish lines, making this offering a true treat to behold.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reads like a disappointing fine wine. They do acknowledge&nbsp; that they are typically &quot;shallow engraved&quot;. In the final analysis, grading is subjective. I have read US grading books and am in awe of the science and complexity but it creates a dimension that I do not want to be part of. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1495799[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1495800[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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