1961 Franklin just beautiful

Hi everyone
I just bought this coin from a new store not ebay his prices are very good and I
bough this Franklin for only $16.00. from this store, it is worth a look at least I think so.
http://www.bullseyebullion.net/servlet/the-409/1961-Proof-Franklin-90-pct-/Detail#itemadded
This is the first Franklin I have ever bought and in this shape widegrin
I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.
All the Best
Alan

 

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Very nice :thumb:

 

Looks nice but I thought his head/body wasn't supposed to be shiny on a proof? Polished?

 

It is a proof coin. What you may be thinking of are cameo proofs, where the bust (obv.) and eagle (rev.) are frosted and other devices/fields are mirrored.

-Brian

 

Cameo proofs from that era are few and far between, unlike the proof coins of today.

 

It's a nice coin but the bell has a crack in it

 

Kind of like the Alamo has bullet holes in the walls.

 

It's a very nice proof and the Franklin series is a popular one for numismatists to put together.

$16 is a good price, but not really value shattering as the proof Franklins, 60-63, are easy to find for just slightly over melt, and if you look hard enough those years can be found right around melt.

:thumb:

 

That's the "full bell line"

 

I'm sure you're kidding with that(at least I hope you are).

 

:thumb: Nice 1961 Proof Franklin+ spot or haze free to!!!!
A lot of 1959-63+1964 Proofs have spots.

 

I agree, it's a nice coin - especially from an era when problem proofs are fairly common.
There even appears to be a bit of frost on the obverse lettering!

 

I hate to be the bearer of what could turn out to be negative news but taken directly from the website below under specifications
'Photo's are stock and not necessarily the coin you will receive. Some coins exhibit toning and hazing from having been in sets.'

 

Thanks everyone.
What I did was write the seller and I told him that I wanted that exact coin in the picture. He wrote me back saying he was not sure if he still had this exact coin in stock as it was a stock photo.

It took him a few days but we wrote back and forth. Then he emailed me back saying he had found the same coin as in the stock photo, So this is the coin I will be receiving,
I Told him I Only wanted that coin and he was able to get it for me.

Take care everyone.
Alan

 

I've got a super ugly proof franklin half and would kill to get that at $16. My proof is absolutely no less than ghastly even though it was pulled directly out of a proof set. Same goes for the dime and quarter in it.

 

you better hope that is true :devil:

 

I didn't know that. Thanks.

 

Man I hate to give any negative observations on an otherwise positive thread, and I very well could be wrong, but I believe this franklin was dipped. It is crisp, but just not enough. There is a small layer on there, and that is why I believe you see the microscropic bubbles both on the obverse and reverse. Look I could be wrong, but Franklins are my favorite series, and I look at over 100 a day. Deff Proof, but could be a dip. Just lacking a slight bit of crisp imo.

 

Potentially a good source. Let us know how it comes out.