1928 sixpence

[stevo1962]

Does anyone think that this coin has a chance of making MS63?

[trout]

Yes
Looks the goods to me Mate :good:

[echidna]

62 or 63.
50/50

[dcoin]

I'd say it would grade AU58.

[ausjack]

sweet stevo, ya still going hard mate, good on ya and thanks for sharing

[serial]

I really would love to say yes but honestly I think you will struggle to break 60. I see to much wear on the high points and chatter in the fields to grade any higher than 61 after comparing it to the PCBs population report picture of a 64
However best of luck I do hope it makes 63+

[markn]

I think you should give it a swim in some acetone for a few days and then post up some new pictures.  It looks AU58/MS62 to me.

[stevo1962]

I think you should give it a swim in some acetone for a few days and then post up some new pictures.  It looks AU58/MS62 to me.

Might be worth a try

[emu666]

Band full, moustache full, no flattening on emu; possibly a tiny bit of friction on HM's shoulder (but could be just discolouration); quite a bit of bagging in the fields but the lustre appears to flow into the fields from the lettering. Unc; a solid MS62. Would make MS63 only if the lustre is a lot stronger than appears in the scan (can be hard to show lustre in scan) and there are no hairline scratches (these rarely show in scans). I wouldn't think eye appeal to be good enough for a plus grade.

[stevo1962]

Thanks for the comments everyone.I would say with the lack of wear it will go at least MS62 and if
it doesn't go any higher I've probably overpaid but that's the fun of taking a chance so I'll have to
wait and see when it arrives

[serial]

well we all know how your grading gambles go
knowing your luck this coin will hit 68
anyway good luck and don't forget to show us your result so we can learn from it

[stevo1962]

well we all know how your grading gambles go
knowing your luck this coin will hit 68
anyway good luck and don't forget to show us your result so we can learn from it

Thanks Serial I'm probably in front so far.Here is a good example of
how deceptive some coins can be.Sold to me and rated by a few forum
members as EF or good EF but was actually much better

 http://www.australian-coins.net/showthread.php?tid=2194

     PCGS Result
  http://www.pcgs.com/Cert/29486982.html

[emu666]

Your original image did not show any lustre.
It is extremely difficult to grade from a scan.

[markn]

Your original image did not show any lustre.
It is extremely difficult to grade from a scan.

+1 to that.  It's hard enough to grade from good images let alone from bad ones.  It's great that everyone posts up their wins on this forum but sometimes I think it would be more educational to post up the coins you mucked up on and compared your own images of coins against the original sellers images.

I know more than enough about the way that images are taken to know that an image can hide/disclose information about the coin.  For example, the way the sellers images of the 1928 florin were taken would hide hairlines.  It also hides lustre (as emu66 pointed out).  While I am happy for you that it graded so well it's nothing more than luck that the coin didn't have hairlines because you simply couldn't tell from the image.

[wwwww]

Stevo, you reflect the light into the lens in your photos, this hides the surface quality and lustre which makes it impossible to accurately grade.