The Craziness Continues

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As my principal interest has been crowns, getting a date run in VF would be economically impossible!! I started with 'any grade will do' in the 1980's, and it's taken me until now to achieve a minimum of AF (1551-1684) F (1686-1804) & AVF (1818-date). In fact I still have a few rare dates (1665, 1697 etc) that I haven't managed even this yet. I agree that F to VF must be the grades that most lifelong private collectors (of pre-1937 coins) deal in. These sort of grades have seen a more realistic increase than EF (e.g. I bought A 1676 Crown in GF for £90 10 years ago, and I reckon it would now go for sbout £180). The current boom in these sort of grade seems to be in hammered & especially Saxon (a middling - say GF/NVF 1d of Alfred could have been got for £300 6 or 7 years ago - now it's more like £1000).