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Grading terms

The value of a coin depends very strongly on its preservation. So e.g. a 1-DM-coin of 1954 with the embossing letter “G” is in preservation “fine” just only 1 DM = 49 euro cent worth, in preservation “uncirculated” however over 1000 euro. By not adequate cleaning you can “destroy” the worth of your uncirculated coin to a coin with preservation fine. Note: you do not achieve a better preservation by cleaning! Pay attention thus to a careful care and storage of your collection.

The preservation degrees are unfortunately not standardized, those terms and/or contractions are usually used, however the preservation degree can vary with same indication by different dealers.

In the German-speaking countries only 6 preservation degrees are usually used. Since this rough classification is not sufficient, one often falls back to preservation degree data of other languages or “own” are tinkered degrees. Often one sees also data like a minus sign or plus character after the normal term .

Terms of condition and international grading terminology
English / German / French / Netherlands

It is to be manufactured very heavily an international comparison, if a standardisation is missing.
In following overview I try to draw however parallels.

E	PRF Proof	UNC Uncir- culated	XF / EF Extremely fine	VF Very fine	F Fine	VG Very good	G Good	PR Poor
D	PP Polierte Platte	ST Stempel- glanz	ST - VZ	VZ Vorzüg- lich	SS Sehr Schön	S Schön	G.E. gut erhalten	gering erhalten
F	FB Flan Bruni	FDC Fleur de coin	SUP Superbe	TTB Très très beau	TB Très beau	B Beau	TBC Très bien conservée	BC bien conservée
N	Proef	FDC Fleur de coin	Pr. Prachtig	Z.f. Zeer fraai	Fr. Fraai	Z.g. Zeer goed	G Goed

The German mintmarks and there correspond places
During the evaluation of the coins frequently also the embossing place, which is marked by the mintmark, plays a crucial role. .

coined in embossing letter Berlin A München D Stuttgart F Karlsruhe G Hamburg J

Momentarily the German coins with the following
embossing letters are coined/shaped in