I've just been looking through an old UK Coin Monthly Year Book from 1980 and found this guide to correctly identifying the the condition of coins from late Queen Victoria to Edward VII (see below). There is also a guide for early QV, George V & VI and early QEII, if this is useful.
Yes I brought this book online for the same thing and its pretty good as well.
By coin publications, it offers black and white images of all British coin types from 1797 onwards including portraits and obverses. It was pretty cheap. They also publish the collectors coins book top right in second image. Some of the pictures are a bit dark though and you get only 4 conditions (EF, VF, F and Fair - really G - VG), although some viginettes show details occasionally of AU and UNC coins.
The other books shown all have good notes or descriptions of grading. I also have a USA Photograde book from 1999 (Originally 1970) and this even better showing most coins from AG3 to AU50
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
It would be good to get some overseas examples of grading posted here too, just for comparison to the British perspective. Surely we Brits can't be the only ones prepared to stick our necks out on the somewhat subjective topic of grading the condition of coins. Now there's a challenge… ;-)
