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Sorry to disagree. The 1930 obverse is not a lot better than Fair - the hair detail is nearly all gone, and the top of the ear is missing completely. As for the reverse - the top left of the harp is fused into the shield quadrant edge, the adjoining thistle is flat, the lettering is worn - not away - but WIDE (look at an UNC specimen, you will see how fine the legend lettering is). There are certain designs which - even after a lot of wear - still retain a lot of detail; the obverse of George IV Crowns, and all George V halfcrown reverses, are cases in point. Just because a lot of detail has survived, it doesn't mean that the grade is therefore higher than on other designs. I'd give that halfcrown a grade of Fine only, being an average of the obverse and reverse, which are a whole grade apart. Here is my 1930 : strictly speaking it's GVF, but a more lax assessment might say NEF. See how much difference there is between the two coins? (The quality of photograph is not good, as it's a JPEG scan blown up 100%, but you see the point, I hope).

The town of my birth. We have a lot of Pride in Edmund. Great coin Mark.

She simply should'nt be doing two jobs if she can't handle the questions and at least be polite in her reply. She told me Friday she'd get back to me with the tracking but nothing came and thats why i had to ask again, if she'd done the job she said she was going to do Friday i would have had no need to bother her again

Hi JPK, you have asked the million dollar question here, and there's no simple way to answer it, as the coin in question exhibits just about every vagarity that makes it nigh impossible to pin down! I'm firmly sitting on the fence re the grading of hammered coins, as I genuinely don't believe such a science exists for the type, despite the media of the TPGC's and others! Or at least if it does, it cannot be linked to value, on account of the other far more important aspect of eye-appeal, and currently unquantified rarity of variety (this shilling is the most common of them all, incidentally)! It may be loosely described as an NVF coin, but has other aspects of negatives and positives that alter its value! To play safe and stay with the TPG terminology, it has NVF details! As I said, it's just about the hardest of questions to answer, without a dissertation response, or an ability to define instinct! Are you thinking of buying it? Edit: it's probably VFish truth be told, but not VFish money, given it's the commonest of all the Liz shillings! Double edit: £350-£400