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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 755512, member: 112"]Howdy vent, Welcome to the Forum. Shame you just joined, I lived in Salt Lake for 27 years, just moved to PA this year. Anyway, your coins - there are a couple reasons they look so different. 1 - the '54 was struck with worn out dies and has a weak strike. But more importantly, and you should like this part, what few know is that in '58 and '59 there are a very few business strike Frankies that were struck with used Type 2 Proof dies. Your '59 is one of those coins. As such, it may be a good deal more valuable than you thought it was. Now you're going to ask well why then did not PCGS note it as such ? That's because PCGS does not do variety attributions unless they are specifically requested to do so and paid to do so - it cost more. But if you ask and pay for it, they will do it and mark it on the slab. However, they will only do so with coins noted as varieties in the Red Book. This coin is not noted in the Red Book. So, if you wish to have it attributed properly then you will need to submit the coin to a different TPG and request said attribution. DO NOT crack the coin out of the slab it is in now.  Sure you can crack them open, but you cannot crack them open is such a way that you can't tell they were cracked open. In other words, they are tamper proof. Now what you need to do is some more research on that coin, and take special care of it. I would suggest searching the Heritage archives as a start.[/QUOTE]