Please guess the grade on this Franklin. No cheating either but checking your answer after guessing is fine.
I'm usually harder on grades but from the pictures I don't see anything I don't like other than the little toning on the Obverse. MS-66 FBL
I don't see FBL either. MS64 There are a couple of dings on the cheek. Nice coin. It may CAC with that toning. How do you check to see if you're correct?
MS65 much I say easily a gem as it is better than the few, I have slabbed. It could have that bump for toning. Pretty Franky ddddd.
66, easy. It would be a 65 without the toning. My only real concern is the bump on Franklin's cheek, but the rest of the coin is smooth. Definitely NOT FBL, nowhere even close, judging from what I see in this single stationary image.
Didn't on of the TPG's start grading only the top bell lines, I seem to remember something. The topic definitely came up in the past.
MS65, not FBL. I'm not a fan of toning of any sort. If it didn't come from the mint that way, it's just a form of environmental damage, whether "natural" or "artificially toned."
Not exactly... PCGS uses only the *bottom* set of bell lines to judge FBL. Those are usually more distinct. NGC uses *both* sets of bell lines to judge FBL. This is a much harder designation to get on certain dates. 54S is a really hard date to get in true FBL (both sets of lines). Not as hard as the legendary 53S, but still quite difficult.
