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Message:: [QUOTE="Paul M., post: 5285518, member: 73165"]That's always been my general rule for interpreting UK grades: just take the US grade and bump it down 1 full grade. I have no idea what it's worth, but I like it, details slab or not.  IMO, with really old coins, you have to almost disregard any "details" notations and just decide "do I like the look of this coin or not?" This is something I learned from collecting ancient coins.  Almost 100% of ancient coins have some sort of problem, whether it's something as innocuous as being off center (which generally isn't even considered much of a problem), all the way down to serious and badly done tooling (which is considered a serious problem), or even bronze disease (which is not only considered a problem, but it will literally turn the coin to dust if you don't do something about it). With ancients, you have to pick and choose what problems you'll accept.  Broadly appreciating ancient coins requires a real sense of wabi sabi. Newman started collecting in the 1930s, IIRC.  I would wager the majority of his collection was assembled before the 1980s.  Grading didn't start to go seriously off the rails until sometime around the early 80s, IIRC. OTOH, collectors were generally encouraged to clean their coins before about the 1960s.  Any kind of toning was considered such a negative it was worth destroying an original surface to get rid of it.  "Brilliant is best," after all, right?[/QUOTE]