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Message:: [QUOTE="WillGK, post: 5126994, member: 115517"]Got it, thank you.  You’ve seen it too, then.  Clearly the cuts on this coin end the “continuity”, the PCGS official word, but you have seen cuts like this get FBL.  I don’t know how to think about it.  Maybe it’s about the location of the cut, and the overall clarity of the the bell lines?  For example, in this coin the bell lines are clear and distinct at the location of the cuts, no weakness.  And the cuts are near the left edge, as opposed to being centrally located.  Are these the sorts of factors that they consider?  Rhetorical question. No idea. Sigh.  I have another question about this coin, if you don’t mind.  It’s off the topic of bell lines.  There are the lines that look like scratches, but aren’t scratches, coming off the right edge of the device.  On this coin they are barely visible without magnification, and only in certain light.  I call them stretch marks (not in front of my wife of course).  I have them on many Franklins, noticeable, not nice coins, ones in my bullion pile.  But also I have them on a number of Franklins, hard to make out except under magnification, coins that seem to me to otherwise be really nice, really close to MS67.  I’ll submit the ones that are clearly FBL.  But I have no idea how these lines affect the grade. What is your experience?[/QUOTE]