Poor - 1 The coin is identifiable as to date and type
Fair - 2 Slightly less wear than Poor. Rims are blending with
the fields. Many of the design elements are completely worn
away.
Poor: a grading term for a coin that is so badly worn that you can barely recognize the type and date. See "About Good."
porous: slightly pitted due to cleaning or chemical action.
PQ: abbreviation for Premium Quality.
Poor: Inscriptions worn off, date illegible, only outline of design visible. (US: AG-3)
Fair: Date, legends and denomination (if any) legible, type recognisable. Very little detail visible. (US: VG-8) ...
POOR: This is the lowest grade that can be accorded to a note. Such a note is severely damaged with large pieces missing and showing heavy surface wear, large holes, stains and considerable discoloration.
Poor The grade PO-1. A coin with readable date and mint mark (if present), but little more, barely identifiable as to type. (One-year type coins do not require a readable date to qualify for this grade.) See also PO-1.
poor
A coin grade with readable date and mint marks, but little more.
porous ...
P = Poor A flat round piece of silver or copper showing only traces of the design of a coin. May be bent, scratched, even mutilated. No date in the Australian Pre-Decimal series is scarce enough to warrant this grade to be collected.
P-1 (poor) - filler or cull - barely recognizable, most major portions completely smooth ...
(P-1) Poor - Barely identifiable; must have date and mintmark, otherwise pretty thrashed.
(FR-2) Fair - Worn almost smooth but lacking the damage Poor coins have.
Fair / Poor
A coin in either "Fair" or "Poor" condition is basically just a slick round piece of metal with a faint outline of some shape which might be a nose, ear, or maybe just a ding in the metal.
Split Grades ...
Poor style is self explanatory and usually results in a coin with very low eye-appeal when compared to other coins from the same series.
Poor (PO-1)
Poor coins are essentially uncollectible. They are completely or almost completely worn down to the point of being unreadable.
Fair (FR-2) ...
Poor
Proof issues incorporate the same grades. Proof coins will be so noted with the use of the prefix PF for all grades 1 through 70.
Poor, Fair, Good, Very Good, Fine, Very Fine, Extremely Fine, Almost Uncirculated, Uncirculated, Mint State.
Poor Mint conditions also limited production of the smaller silver denominations"quarters, dimes and half-dimes. Because the Mint could make half dollars much more efficiently than the smaller denominations, half dollars they made.
Poor (P)
Poor is the bottom of the barrel. The coin has not detail, and is virtually a smooth disc. No identification is possible.
Split Grades ...
Poor
Synonym for the grade PO-1 (or P1).
Pop Report
Synonym for a report issued by NGC or PCGS, which summarizes the coins certified to date.
"Poor Ezra Hill, long since dead and buried, a victim of consumption, commenced collecting in 1858; he never was fortunate enough to obtain any very rare pieces, ...
This poor little coin almost went unsold on eBay but I took pity on it and gave it a home. It is not a pretty example of an AE 18 of Pautalia showing Geta and Asclepius. The only thing than makes it special is that it is weakly attracted to a magnet.
1601 Poor Law introduced in England
The aim is to establish a national pattern for parishes to copy in dealing with the problems of the destitute, which have become more obvious since the dissolution of the monasteries, 1534-1540.
p 215 ...
With poor sales due to the great depression, a local department store put in a request for 30,000 coins. This was "Foy and Gibson", with the coins to be given out in customers' change along with a comemmorative paper bag to store their special coin.
P-1, poor, filler or cull -- barely recognizable While not included in the ANA standards, intermediate grades like AU-53, VF-35, F-15 and G-6 are used by some dealers and grading services.
In a poor country very small coins are important. The 1/4 Anna would correspond to the smallest British coin in ordinary circulation (until 1956), the farthing (1/4d).
After the poor reception afforded Scot's creation, Mint Director Henry DeSaussure addressed the immediate need to improve the coinage. Going outside the Mint, he engaged artist Gilbert Stuart to submit a sketch for a new Liberty head.
Frosty surfaces, poor lustre. Seldom seen P-L.
1878 7/8 TF -
Frosty surfaces, good lustre, scarce in prooflike.
Abbreviation for Poor. (Also P).
Polished die
A die that has been basined to remove clash marks or other die injury. Dies used to strike Proof coins were polished to impart mirrorlike surfaces.
Asset Rich, Cash Poor:
To be apparently rich on paper, but have no money for everyday needs. Now more common following the rapid increase in the paper value of people's houses.
"Haven't got a Sou:" ...
Head of Demeter of poor style (Fig. 237).
[B. M. C., Pelop., Pl. XXII. 6, 7.] ...
Circulated coins, at the time of this writing in 1993, consisted of the following grades: Poor, Fair, About Good, Good, Very Good, Fine, Very Fine, Extremely Fine (sometimes Extra Fine), and About Uncirculated.
Therefore, a poor likeness of a character or "less than perfect engraving quality", by itself, should not be confused with an error. If it was, the list of error coins kept by some collectors could indeed be a very long one! ...
Their often gold knock off that are made of poor quality gold and are designed to fool buyers of gold who are not knowledgable. Very commonly found in coin jewelry.
The Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, poor and without resources (10km of pave roads for 212, 000 km2) kept the Indian rupees as stability against the prospect of complete monetary disorder.
However, so many poor quality unstrung beads were put into circulation that in April of 1641 a law was passed prohibiting the use of unpolished beads during the month of May.
There was some recoinage under John in 1205 because existing coins were in poor condition and not accepted in the Dutch trade.
In coin collecting the condition of a coin is paramount; a high-quality example is often worth many times as much as a poor example—although there are always exceptions to this general rule.
The actual position of Liberty's head may cause poor detail even on pristine specimens. The feathers on the eagle's leg and the claws may also show evidence of weak strike. Wear first appears on Liberty's thigh, right breast and the top of her head.
Targets lower class - will hurt those who can afford it least, the poor and elderly. Increased prices due to "rounding" would fall disproportionately on those least able to afford it. (This result is also contradicted by Whaples's findings.
In the United Kingdom these ceremonies have included the reigning Monarch offering "alms" to deserving poor and senior citizens.
As indicated above, the simple counting of known specimens is a poor guide to the original volume of an issue. This is so for a variety of reasons.
RIC IX has extensive photographic coverage of the types, but with poor to mediocre photos. It has extensive discussion of the types and mints. RIC X has virtually complete photographic coverage (by mint, emperor, and type) with excellent photos.
A coin may be as fine as when struck, but if softly struck, or struck on a poor quality planchet, with visible die polish lines, or corrosion, etc.
When the first offerings of coins were made in the 1850’s, coins were described as Poor, Good, Fine, Uncirculated, or Proof. These grades do not equate to todays grading at all! ...
Note: The LIBERTY may also be weak on a Large Date variety so this is a poor indicator of the type but a strong LIBERTY does indicate that it is NOT the scarce Small Date variety.
The Alimenta was a welfare program for poor children and Orphans. Credit for designing the program is usually attributed to Nerva, but it was increased and formally organized under Trajan.
It had long been the custom for the sovereign to perform an act of humility by washing the feet of a number of the poor in memory of Christ washing the feet of his disciples.
The family was destitute and remained poor even after the remarriage of Andrew's mother. Apprenticed by his mother to a tailor at the age of 14, Johnson was unable to attend school and never was afforded a formal education.
Remember that good or poor values can be obtained from any size or type of dealer. Expect the top wholesale value of the coins you buy from a reputable dealer to be approximately 60% to 80% of the price you pay.
There are those who feel that eliminating the penny would hurt the poor and that retail stores wikll figure out a way to cheat the public out of a few pennies per transaction if rounding occurred.
Condition or Grade - POOR - FAIR, GOOD, VERY-GOOD, FINE, VERY-FINE, EXTREMELY-FINE and ABOUT UNCIRCULATED - terms describing the degree of wear or circulation a coin has experienced.
A poor man. from the former, and a man with his wife from the latter place. Indeed, it is to be regretted, that these are not the only instances known by many.
Amidst such luxury and magnificence, the poor bedizened animals (on some grand occasions paying the tribute of their bloodat the shrines of superstition, by the hundred at a time), ...
They may have defects that resulted from mishandling at the mint, some loss of detail resulting from poor strike or overuse of the dies which struck the coin. Coins were often sorted into bags after they were made and then transported.
The past two seasons have been poor in the water. More was found on beaches after the hurricanes that ate down the dunes by several feet.
Barring a poor strike, detail on the hair will be complete; however, details above the ear and forehead are still semi-weak. Trace of luster should be found among the stars and edge. Reverse: Wear shows on bow, corn and high points of wreath.
Quarter eagles tend to be better produced but many exhibit poor strikes and are found on inferior planchets.
Don't assume that all old coins will be in very poor condition. If you are buying coins you can expect such coins to be in respectable condition, even if it is over 500 years old.
Half-groats and silver pennies were not in circulation in the Victorian era but were still minted for a tradition known as Maundy Money where the Monarch gave poor people in a parish a groat, a threepence, a half groat and a penny.
The counterfeit coin we did use for this example was of a poor quality but still there are people who do not know what they are actually buying, mostly collectors with no knowledge from the king of coins, the 1804 draped bust dollar, ...
The planchets used for the 1858-D gold dollars were of poor quality and many had different mint-made problems. A very few specimens have first quality planchets with bold strikes, and these are seldom seen.
ANA grading standard meaning Poor.
prestige set
A set of coins produced by the U.S. Mint, containing one of more proof commemorative coins released in the same year Ñ as well as a proof cent, nickel, dime, quarter and half dollar.
 See also: Coin, Mint, Half, Silver, Struck
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