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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2504946, member: 24314&quot;]Sorry for the pile on BUT: The large, detracting, naked-eye hit precludes this coin from even approaching FS!</p><p><br /></p><p>The grading services, Jefferson nickel specialists, and the rest of us can have different opinions and they are published.&nbsp; FB, FBL, and FS definitions are all over the map.&nbsp; Some say the mark only needs to touch the design, others say it needs to cut down INTO the depth of the horizontal line.&nbsp; The FBL issue is really a mess as PCGS changed the requirements from both sets of BL to just the bottom set.&nbsp; One supposedly authoritative site (CAC if I remember) shows a FBL Franklin with a deep cut at one end of the bell!</p><p><br /></p><p>We are free to call things anything we wish.&nbsp; Others don&#039;t need to agree.&nbsp; The looser our standards are, the fewer numismatists may agree with them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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