Greetings, I have come across what I believe may be an elusive 1961 Franklin Proof DDR. My local dealer is out of town at the Phoenix coin show so I thought maybee someone on the forum could help me. The back of the coin appears to be mostly normal when compared to any other proof Franklin. The only 2 noticible differences appear to be: #1 - The "E Pluribus Unum" and the 2 dots are heavily frosted and 2 to 3 times larger than on a normal proof. When you look at the coin at an angle you can clearly see that the letters are not "crisp" as on a normal franklin and in fact the E seems very large especially the | portion, on the word Pluribus the P is much larger and the other letters are crammed together almost touching each other. #2 -All of the other letters on the back are much thicker than on a normal Franklin. I have attached a scan and not sure if it will help or not. Any questions/comments would be appreciated.
I would love to try and help you, but the pics are just too small for me to see what you are talking about.
Your probably hoping for an FS 801 DR. You may have a 1961 DR F'S 803. It's more common. I would think that the upstanding PNCS wold have detected this error but they were probably too busy cracking Au & low MS & PF coins from slabs and elevating their status to a 69 or 70 grade. They may have overlooked the not too obvious DDR. You should post a close up of the reverse and the obverse for any possibility of anyone here at CT to be able to come up with a grade or 2. Bruce
As mentioned above, there is NO way to tell from an image that size. You need to take some close up pics.
