WCS Photograde - Grading Scale

UNC = Mint State

UNC- = About Uncirculated

XF = Extremely Fine

VF = Very Fine

F = Fine

VG/G = Very Good/Good

UNC = Mint State

  • New Guinea 1 Penny 1936 KM#6 UNC
  • Fiji 1 Penny 1936 Edward VIII KM#6 UNC
  • Hungary 100 Forint 1970 - 25th Anniversary of Liberation KM#593 UNC
  • Afghanistan 5 Afghanis 1981 - F.A.O. - World Food Day KM#1001 UNC
  • Zambia 50 Ngwee 1969 F.A.O. KM#14 UNC
  • Katanga 5 Francs 1961 KM#2 UNC
  • Cuba 1 Peso 1998 History of World Exhibitions - Paris 1889 UNC

UNC- = About Uncirculated

  • British West Africa 1/10 Penny 1908 KM#3 UNC-

XF = Extremely Fine

  • Yugoslavia 50 Para 1938 KM#18 XF
  • Poland 1 Fenig 1918 Y#4 XF
  • Greece 5 Lepta 1912 KM#62 XF

VF = Very Fine

  • Tibet 1 Sho BE16-1 (1927) Dot below syllable rab Y#21a VF
  • Hyderabad 1 Anna AH1358 (1939) Y#49 VF

F = Fine

  • Austria 20 Kreuzer 1765 KM#1814 F
  • Mexico 10 Centavos 1873 Mo M KM#403.7 F
  • Paraguay 2 Centesimos 1870 KM#3 F

VG = Very Good

  • Brazil 20 Reis 1824 R countermarked KM#436.1 VG
  • Austrian Netherlands 2 Liards (2 Oorden) 1790 KM#45 VG
  • Liberia 1 Cent 1906 H KM#5 VG

G = Good

  • Dutch Republic 1 Duit 1739 KM#80 G
  • Polish Lithuanian 1 Solidus 1664 Ujazdow KM#110 G

cleaned/gereinigt

Australia 1 Penny 1951 PL KM#43 VF (cleaned)
Australia 1 Penny 1951 PL KM#43 VF (cleaned)

altered surfaces/veränderte Oberflächen

Australia 1 Penny 1940 KM#36 F (altered surfaces)
Australia 1 Penny 1940 KM#36 F (altered surfaces)

corrosion/Korrosion

  • Australia 1 Penny 1917 I (Calcutta, India) KM#23 F (corrosion)
  • Norway 2 Øre 1943 KM#394 VF (corrosion)
Australia 1 Penny 1917 I (Calcutta, India) KM#23 F (corrosion)
Australia 1 Penny 1917 I (Calcutta, India) KM#23 F (corrosion)
Norway 2 Øre 1943 KM#394 VF (corrosion)
Norway 2 Øre 1943 KM#394 VF (corrosion)