United Kingdom ½ penny • 1952 Proof?

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I have a little no knowledge about foreign coins, which to me would be any Coin outside of the United States.  I am at a point however, where I have decided to go through a completely full, freezer-sized Ziploc bag full of different coins from around the world that my late grandfather had stuffed in the corner of one of his many boxes containing his lifetime coin collection that was passed down to me and my two younger siblings, mostly American Coinage.  anyways, I don’t put much faith at all in these coin grading applications they have for phones now, except for the fact that they do do a fairly good job at identifying the coin.  I keep getting and identification of this coin being a UK ½ Penny 1952 Proof? My issue is this does not look like the exquisite frosty and mirrored surfaced modern day ASE Proofs among others I'm used to seeing?     any comments would be appreciatedany comments would be appreciated!

 

* below is an example of what I mean when I say “Modern Frosty and Mirrored Surfaced ASE Proofs.”

TJS

Your app might be picking up “frost” from the reflection? Can you post better pics? Maybe no flash?

 

N#3593

TCon

Your app might be picking up “frost” from the reflection? Can you post better pics? Maybe no flash?

 

N#3593

yeah, I will try to take better picture with natural lighting

TJS

TeeEss86

TCon

Your app might be picking up “frost” from the reflection? Can you post better pics? Maybe no flash?

 

N#3593

yeah, I will try to take better picture with natural lighting

This is irrelevant, the images are fine to say 100% that your 1952 half penny is not a proof - just a normal coin. You know what proofs look like (you explained in your question, and you added some images of a proof coin) so why believe an Application on your phone!?

 

Why don’t you start identifying these coins through books or entering words or dates in the Numista catalogue, that way you won’t get stupid information from a tool designed for lazy people by idiots to cloud your judgment. Just a suggestion.

 

edit: on second thought it might be a proof 😂  na more likely just an uncirculated coin maybe. Real proofs come with other corroborating evidence, not just a frosty / mirrored surface (which this coin wouldn’t have had) as 75 years ago that wasn’t a thing.

„If your reply or post in the Forum stinks of AI, I will call you out! Knowledge comes from experience, the I in AI stands for incompetence.“

King

TeeEss86

TCon

Your app might be picking up “frost” from the reflection? Can you post better pics? Maybe no flash?

 

N#3593

yeah, I will try to take better picture with natural lighting

This is irrelevant, the images are fine to say 100% that your 1952 half penny is not a proof - just a normal coin. You know what proofs look like (you explained in your question, and you added some images of a proof coin) so why believe an Application on your phone!?

 

Why don’t you start identifying these coins through books or entering words or dates in the Numista catalogue, that way you won’t get stupid information from a tool designed for lazy people by idiots to cloud your judgment. Just a suggestion.

good point.  Would it be a true statement though that proof coins from 100+ years ago are going to be a little harder to identify as opposed to a modern proof coin?

TJS

TeeEss86

King

TeeEss86

TCon

Your app might be picking up “frost” from the reflection? Can you post better pics? Maybe no flash?

 

N#3593

yeah, I will try to take better picture with natural lighting

This is irrelevant, the images are fine to say 100% that your 1952 half penny is not a proof - just a normal coin. You know what proofs look like (you explained in your question, and you added some images of a proof coin) so why believe an Application on your phone!?

 

Why don’t you start identifying these coins through books or entering words or dates in the Numista catalogue, that way you won’t get stupid information from a tool designed for lazy people by idiots to cloud your judgment. Just a suggestion.

good point.  Would it be a true statement though that proof coins from 100+ years ago are going to be a little harder to identify as opposed to a modern proof coin?

Yes 100%, I just added an edit to my original reply about that 👍

„If your reply or post in the Forum stinks of AI, I will call you out! Knowledge comes from experience, the I in AI stands for incompetence.“

King

TeeEss86

King

TeeEss86

TCon

Your app might be picking up “frost” from the reflection? Can you post better pics? Maybe no flash?

 

N#3593

yeah, I will try to take better picture with natural lighting

This is irrelevant, the images are fine to say 100% that your 1952 half penny is not a proof - just a normal coin. You know what proofs look like (you explained in your question, and you added some images of a proof coin) so why believe an Application on your phone!?

 

Why don’t you start identifying these coins through books or entering words or dates in the Numista catalogue, that way you won’t get stupid information from a tool designed for lazy people by idiots to cloud your judgment. Just a suggestion.

good point.  Would it be a true statement though that proof coins from 100+ years ago are going to be a little harder to identify as opposed to a modern proof coin?

Yes 100%, I just added an edit to my original reply about that 👍

 

I am highly doubtful after taking closer looks and playing with the images a bit that this is a proof version of this coin.  however, I do know that this coin was offered in a proof if I’m not mistaken?    @King   thank you so very much for your input and direction with my question!

TJS

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