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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;QUEENKOIN, post: 32886, member: 656&quot;]This isn&#039;t the easiest question to answer, as I can say I have sent what I thought were easy Cameo coins into the Grading services only to wind up with a non cameo designation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can say that PCGs/NGC both look for the devices to be frosted and without frost breaks. However, certian coins have areas were frost breaks occur in certian areas, yet this doesn&#039;t hurt them in regards to the Cameo designation. Confused?</p><p><br /></p><p>Take the 56 Frankie for instance:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.hepcatradio.com/delete/56dcam-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Notice the frost breaks on the three wisps of hair to the right of Frankies ear and also on the hair strand to the left of his ear, if you follow that hair strand down their is yet another frost break by the shoulder area. Every single 56 Frankie I have ever seen in Cameo or Deep Cameo has this characteristic yet it is allowed by the grading companys.</p><p><br /></p><p>To try and answer your question, look for even uniform frosting on all the devices on both the obverse and reverse, large areas of frost weakness will most likely keep the coin out of a cameo designation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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