GTG: 1954 S Franklin

I can't help posting these, sorry if I'm flooding the board. But it's educational at the very least.

 

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I'm going with MS66

 

MS65+

 

MS66

 

First thought was 66 then zoomed in I see several hits so I'll go 65/65+.
Bell lines look pretty good too.

 

65 FBL

 

66

 

66

 

MS65+ No FBL

 

I'm always wrong when I disagree with Larry,
but I'll say 65 No FBL anyway

 

Looks about 66 to me too.

 

I got shafted with this one.

 

Nope, I think it was accurately graded. Look at the cheek. A mark like that would drop it at least one full grade.

 

Is this the same coin as the one displayed in the beginning?

 

It's arguable once you look at the slabbed coin image as opposed to the TrueView image.

However, the coin is NOT worth sending in to be regraded. Just as an FYI, generally speaking, white coins are technically graded "harder" by both major TPG's, by 1 to 1 1/2 points, to pleasantly toned coins of the same date/mm. MORE IMPORTANTLY, the odds of this coin ever being graded FBL were low, and that is where the money is at for grading purposes.

If you bought the coin to flip, take your losses and move on. If you bought it for a set, it is still a very attractive coin, with near FBL for the date/mm. It's a nice looking 1954-S Franklin.

 

Same coin trueview makes every coin look super pretty

 

I don't know, compared to the other Frankies I graded that one looked pretty good. Here's two 1948 65FBL and then the coin in question

 

Those two are beautiful. They have no distracting marks. The '54 does have that noticeable facial mark. With Frankies, that have prominent devices, one really noticeable hit can drop the grade. The two above have nice clean devices.

 

The first image is hiding that nasty hit to the face. I'm at 63 from the slab image.