To the best of my knowledge they are interchangeable FSB or Full Split Bands are the Same as FB or Full Bands. The designation to the coin is most widely given FB. A more knowledgeable Mercury collector will provide a better explanation if I am incorrect.
Pretty sure they are the same thing. Some TPG's use FSB and others use FB. I know PCGS only uses FB. ANACS i think uses FSB.
This is a designation in flux. FSB used to be a more completely struck up version of FB. I think these definitions are a-changing. You are SOOOO right to be asking this question. It's one of the best most current ones I've seen on CT.
AFAIK, FSB was full strike w/uninterrupted full split, and full rounded bands. Most are not that finicky. If the bands are fully split with no interruption (including marks that cross them) they are FB.
Same distinction. I believe both sets need to be complete and split. Just looked at a 1915-P from my change jar. Very nice strike w/no hits across bands. I should expect images are all over the Internet about "designations." Some "modern" grading company puts all kind of stuff on labels. Cannot remember their name but they probably have images of LPW, CCD, PQR, XYZ, and other crap like it. Some mentally challenged nut on CU is collecting "Not Full Step" modern nickels because most come w/full steps! To each his own so I've been encouraging him.
That's one part I don't get at all - "worst" collecting. Not sausages. That would be "wurst" collecting, and I can see that.
Better the TPG's explain since they created them. PCGS to Add ''Full Bands'' Designation for Roosevelt Dimes NGC Full Torch Designation Defined
Correct - FB and FSB mean pretty much the same thing. NGC and PCGS use FB, ANACS uses FSB. Now, the standards which must be met to earn the designation do differ between the TPGs. NGC is widely regarded as having stricter standards, requiring all the horizontal as well as all vertical bands to be fully split and rounded. PCGS uses only the horizontals. On the Roosevelt dime, NGC uses FT while PCGS uses FB. Again, NGC is widely regarded as being stricter.
I stand corrected. Corrected and oh so ashamed. Of course splitting hares and FH Standers will forever be welded together in our hearts and our minds, until we lose one, the other, or both. [21 gun salute.]
As I am the old school type regarding FSB on the Mercury Dime, now these days they just use FB. I thought when they use FB that I see where FB and not exactly split. I have seen many PCGS or NGC of them coins doesn't show much full split bands especially the middle of the band for the Mercury Dime. I am not sure if the current PCGS and NGC grader is looking closely to that. I have seen some of the bands again the middle one is much flatter than the round of the band. So that is why I ask the question because grading has been changing a lot since the earlier days.
Again that goes with FS for the Jefferson Nickels. As we here at this group are more critical than the 3rd party graders.
