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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Springford CC, post: 4770080, member: 102620&quot;]Lehigh is exactly correct. I have been collecting FBL Franklins for about 18 months. I have a top 10 registry set with NGC. Occasionally, bag marks will preclude a coin from getting FBL designation, but generally it is the strike that is the problem. In particular, the San Francisco mint was very problematic. As was stated in an earlier reply that older presses caused weak strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all, the TPGs do a good job of maintaining standards for FBL designation. Sure there are some that probably shouldn’t be FBL, but the photos originally posted on this thread were not nearly good enough to truly evaluate the bell lines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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