g'day folks i'm the coffee bush kid and today we're going to talk
about coin grading whether the coins you find detecting are either very good fine
very fine or extremely fine we're going to use the renik token book to get our definitions from
so that we can go through our coins and find out or at least attempt to find out what we might have
the first definition is very good and it says well-worn through design
and main features are reasonably clear so the first couple of coins i'm going to show you is
a 1931 florin king george v and we also have a 1910 shilling which is an edward vii which just
by the way is our first australian silver that was minted over here and poor old eddie the seventh
he only lasted for one year so he's the only monarch that's going to be on the 1910 shillings
the next definition is fine the highest points of this design and lettering shows some smooth wear
fine scratches may be seen in the field and on the design the rim border is also smooth in parts
now i've got a 1954 rams head shilling that fits that description and i also think that the
1817 george iii shilling should also fall into that description the next definition is very fine
the design and lettering is clearly defined but some slight wear is evident on the high
points of the design and rim border a few minor scratches may be seen so i have a 1891
victoria jubilee shilling that we can have a look at then we've also got a 1951 george v
sixpence we're also going to have a look at a george iv sovereign see what that comes up
like and probably the best one of everything which might even get up into the extremely
fine category which comes in at little wear is evident on the high points of design and
lettering all fine details can be seen and a few fine scratches may be found from rough handling
this one just might get into that category there are some other definitions that you'll hear
on around the traps that aren't written in the book and that would be toasted
smooth as with no design at all we have this uh george v 1949 penny it is blistered
have a look at that we also have mangled and lastly what i wanted to show you
was a cartwheel penny uh this is probably the best one that i've found but most of
them are far worse than this sometimes when you do find coins out in the field
you can be in the unfortunate situation where one side looks absolutely mint ass
and you turn it over and it is as crusty as anything on the other side very disappointing
to find so that's been my interpretation of how i go through and grade my coins but at the end
of the day it doesn't matter what the condition of the coin is as long as you have found it and it's
special to you whether you're going to sell it or whether you're going to keep it it doesn't matter
you found it i'm the coffee bush kid it's been a special presentation for the minelab show