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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 4727065, member: 74863&quot;]Proof coins are considered a method of manufacture. Special dies are used to get the look along with polishing and packaging. Coins from a Mint set are different. They have cheaper packaging, are not polished and the dies are the same as for circulation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Special care is given to proofs. With Nickels they cannot receive a FS or full step designation. Dimes cannot be labeled as FT or full torch and Franklin Halves cannot receive the FBL status. In the minting of proofs these coins just about all have those features.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not do for Mint sets and circulation coins. Only the first coins to be minted may meet the criteria for doing so. For a FBL Franklin PCGS and NGC have different standards for FBL. One uses all the bell lines and the other one uses the top bell lines.&nbsp; Some graders look at the crack to see if the bells lines gobto the crack.</p><p><br /></p><p>On my opening post photo you can see all this clearly. Even Pass and Stow is clear. That&#039;s an added bonus. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for your coin, it&#039;s a proof but the details are soft and mushy. Looks like a few marks on the cheek as well. I would only give this coin a 62, but on a good day it may get a 63. That is not worth breaking the set to have it graded, at least to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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