Compare to PCGS

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  1. baseball21

    baseball21 Well-Known Member

    Not on it, some sort of error or plancet issue most likely. They didn't make a 68 FB without seriously considering it
     
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  3. Santinidollar

    Santinidollar Supporter! Supporter

    I get the impression that full bands on Mercurys and full steps on Jeffersons are often a hit-and-miss proposition.
     
    Santinidollar, Feb 2, 2020
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  4. baseball21

    baseball21 Well-Known Member

    Lehighs explained it some before, it's really just that they're more complicated than casual collectors of the series think.
     
    baseball21, Feb 2, 2020
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  5. Islander80-83

    Islander80-83 Well-Known Member

    Yep, that's what I was thinking.

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    Islander80-83, Feb 2, 2020
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  6. baseball21

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  7. Kentucky

    Kentucky Supporter! Supporter

    So, which grading company is the most lenient on Mercury FSB?
     
    Kentucky, Feb 3, 2020
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  8. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    PCGS is more lenient on every special designation there is - every single one !
     
    GDJMSP, Feb 3, 2020
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  9. geekpryde

    geekpryde Husband and Father Moderator

    A single photo, even glamour-shots PCGS photos, cannot show every aspect of a coin, its strike, its surface. Having a second set of photos, and even a third set, different lighting, slightly different angles, would allow a fuller view of the coin, and might show the bands to be better or worse than the PCGS photos.

    Based on only that OP picture, I would say NOT FSB. But hard to say if PCGS is being inconsistent here with their standards (which they often are), OR, the photo is just not showing you everything the coin has to offer.
     
    geekpryde, Feb 3, 2020
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  10. bruthajoe

    bruthajoe Still Recovering

    Good eye. I see it now but even so, I was under the impression that strike quality played a role in grade.
     
    bruthajoe, Feb 4, 2020
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  11. baseball21

    baseball21 Well-Known Member

    Some coins really just need to be seen in person to be properly judged. That’s a Hansen coin so David Lawerence must have agreed with it. The toning and the weird spot is almost certainly making it look worse as top pop grades don’t just get thrown around.
     
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  12. wxcoin

    wxcoin Getting no respect since I was a baby

    I've been starting a cameo Lincoln proof set from 1950-1964 and noticed that NGC cameo's generally look more cameo than PGCS examples. At first I wondered if the clear vs white holder did tricks to my eyes but don't think so now. I'm sticking with NGC for this set unless I find a comparable PGCS example.
     
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