Frosty 1962 Cameo Franklin

I got this 1962 Proof Franklin half this week. It was in a proof set that I got for $8.50.:whistle: :hammer:

Charlie

 

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Sweet! Good find

 

good God! anyone say Deep? I DO!

What a great pick up at 8.50 for the set! any others in the set good?

 

The rest were brilliant proofs(PR-66-67).

Charlie

 

Way to GO!!!!!....was the set un-opened??

Speedy

 

No, it was not even in an envelope.

Charlie

 

What a Beautiful Coin!!!

 

I sent this and a few other moderns to NGC today. I think it will come back PF-67 DCAM.

Charlie

 

holy cow, that's less than melt right now! nice find!

 

Not by a longggggg shot....a half dollar only has .36169 % silver in it....with silver being about $13.69 that means that the silver in the coin is worth $4.9479932.

Speedy

 

NGC said it was PF-66 Ultra Cameo. Not bad considering I sold the other 4 coins in the proof set for $2 each.

Charlie

 

Neat!!!...you should start a set like mine all in PF66!!!

Speedy

 

mmmmmmm, frosty.

 

I'd really like to get one of the Franklins (first post), but I have a question. For the most part, when I look for the proof sets, it looks more like mint sets (wrapped, in envelopes) and the ones that aren't unopened (at least in theory) seem... more like modern uncirculated finishes. Just... blah. Maybe it's the picture?

Also, while some appear to have a nice cameo like the first post, some appear to be fully mirror-like. I included a picture below and even in this one picture you can see what I mean. The one with one dot is the fully mirrored one and the two red dot has the cameo.

I'd like one of both, though $8.50 for a set sounds good, heh, but I can't figure out why there's a difference, and what is inside the envelopes.

 

Yeah, I realized that I forgot to attach the image. Here it is...

What I mean is that some of them looked almost chromed (fully, including the bell and the head), while others have frosty devices. The picture belwo compares the two reverses (one showing the frosty version, the other the mirror-like version), but you can also see the full-mirror on the obverse by looking at the coin to the left of the two dots.

 

I have a question simular to that. I have noticed this "chromed" finish on older proof sets but it seems that all (or at least all that I have seen) of the newer proof sets only have the mirror finished proofs. Is this because they change/refinish the dies more often than before. It seems that since the proof set production moved to San Francisco rather than Philadelphia this has been the case. Is that true?

 

Newer proofs are usually cameo proofs, because the mint knows collectors like cameos; and it refinishes the dies when the cameo effect wears off. I don't think the mint actively started doing this until 1973 though.

Charlie

 

But if you figure the quarter and dime into the total the whole set is about melt value, isn't it?
Madspec