The FS designation is reserved for Mint State coins, the steps on your coin look real nice, but it is hard to tell if the 4th and 5th steps are seperated in areas. Fun find Meandyou.
To be honest modern FS Jefferson nickels are just about found on every coin. True some may have hits but the design change makes finding nickels with steps easier than without. I believe that now NGC gives a 5 fs and a 6 fs on the slab... but again the term has little to no merit with the Jefferson collector as the FSNC was formed to find Jeffs of the 40,50,and 60's with a great strike making the steps full. Find a 1964 or 64 D full steps and your in high cotton.
Yeah I may have a few left that the total lower porch as well steps arent there look at the mintage on 64 P and D... those dies must of exploded.
64 was the last year of the original Jefferson design. It is much easier but still incredibly hard to find a 64P 5FS nickel, 1-30. 6FS are unknown. It is even harder to find a 5FS 64D, 1-2000. 6FS are unknown. Infact starting in 1960. Philly kept the best dies and sent the worst dies to Denver. Finding a 5FS nickel from Denver was 1-2-3000. Till the redesign in 65.
Here is the only war nickels with full steps that I have a photo of. Please reference the steps so your can see the differences.
In my own defense, there are no marks on the steps at all. My picture quality is not the best. Here is another shot of the steps.
I see a few light marks that are interfering with the steps and the steps themselves are worn. It doesn’t take much to make them non-full steps.
For a coin to be considered FS, all the steps must show breaks in between them. There can be light contact on the points of the steps but they cannot go deeper than the breaks.
Thank you all. I see now. Would've been cool to find a FS on a date that has not been discovered yet. Besides the FS boomer, the coin looks very nice to be 22 yrs in circulation.
Not sure what you mean Jim. The guide book to Buffalo and Jefferson nickels would be a start. It says that the 92D above is 1 in every 2 is 5FS, and common for 6FS.