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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Jags, post: 5281513, member: 78719&quot;]I second Brandon&#039;s comments, but have noticed the following:</p><p><br /></p><p>- UK grading seems not to ding for hairlines on occasion.</p><p>- UK grading does not factor many times for soft strike and downgrades for loss of detail as though it was wear.</p><p>- UK grading seems not to be swayed by cleaning or dipping (the former similar to USA, the latter IMO not so).</p><p>- I agree with slippage of grading in the UK overall</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to buy coins at Glens auctions (yikes, dates me), and as one example got an extremely rare Vicky Halfcrown graded by them as a simple EF that slabbed at PCGS at MS64.....Look at the PCGS pop report under currency 1839 Halfcrown where PCGS probably got it right.</p><p>Please look at the Spink sale of the Pywell-Phillips collection from about two years ago - the Vickies were nearly all wiped or dipped with some obvious in photos and others NOT (to my chagrin on a couple I wished I hadn&#039;t bid on).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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