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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robp, post: 24850273, member: 96746&quot;]I don&#039;t have enough money for a Petition Crown either, but used it as an example of what I consider to be double standards, and the lottery of having a number assigned. Everyone knows instances of coins coming back details cleaned when you can&#039;t see anything wrong for example.</p><p><br /></p><p>It isn&#039;t the first instance of marks being filled that I have seen. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Petition Crown wasn&#039;t mine, only the second one. I happily paid £11.5K at the Plymouth sale in 2008 as it was one of 31 gold patterns that had been off the market for over a century - 20 of which fitted my collecting criteria at the time. It was examined in hand, but being unique was acceptable, scuffed or not. The occasion was one where you bought what you could, because they weren&#039;t going to be that cheap again. If I had a 1/4 million to spare on the day, I would have bought the lot. I sold it because I refocussed the collection, but wasn&#039;t best pleased to see a coin that I had sold as is in good faith reappearing in a quite desirable slab grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is the numerous inconsistencies that make me question the unswerving allegiance to the system by many.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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