Compare to PCGS

Here is a 1956 Roosevelt dime designated MS68 full bands by PCGS. Link...https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/1956-10c-fb/85112/68 (The PCGS "Full Bands" designation for Roosevelts requires that both the upper and lower pair of bands on the torch be distinct and show full separation. The line dividing the bands must be complete and unbroken).
It appears to me on this coin the top band is broken. Browsing through PCGS, I've found lesser designations with what appeared to be better strike quality. What am I missing here?

In short I am trying to compare with this coin...(below) and am having trouble understanding which qualities the formentioned MS68 posses to earn that designation.

 

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I don't trust the PCGS photos. I think they use stock photos that are not representative of the designation title.

 

I wouldn't call either one of these FB.

 

They don't use stock photos

 

So this posting on their website is a true statement?

 

Are you guys saying they don't use photos of the actual coins?

 

Maybe I'm thinking FSB.

 

That's what I was thinking. I'd like to see those coins they post in the actual slabs as well.

 

Pictures don't always accurately show everything and series have their own unique aspects

 

Yes but shouldn't they?

I jumped the gun. So the PCSG coin is a FB just no a FSB.

 

I was wondering if there was a difference also but they say..." requires that both the upper and lower pair of bands on the torch be distinct and show full separation"
https://www.pcgs.com/news/pcgs-to-add-full-bands-designation-for-roosevelt-dimes

 

Impossible for pictures to be as accurate as in hand.

Same thing different way of saying it.

 

I think I'm getting wrapped around the axle. I think I'm getting the Roosevelt's and Mercs mixed up.

 

I think I'm just gunna go home now!

 

That's what I have seen from the beginning of the services, showing it on the label.
I think a lot of the time the grader got it right but the label was printer wrong.
It's tough to image some of the designations in a way that others can see it.
The coins that are just wrong just float around out there on the market. Few will mess with fixing the slab. Crazy stuff.

 

I couldn't agree more. The same is true with full steps Jeffersons.

 

No way on the FB. That drives the price into the universe at the 68 level.

 

No but i'm getting the feeling it is inevitable.

I expected this was going to be the case.

 

IMO there is no way that coin should have gotten a FB notation. Based upon the photograph, the top band appears to have something on it, blocking the line from being a clear separation.