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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Contrarian, post: 3196644, member: 98206&quot;]Thank you all for your opinions.</p><p><br /></p><p>I meant five full steps of course and not six, which is out of the question.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the condition of the coin is concerned, as I had mentioned, I pulled it out of an uncirculated roll. I could have added that NGC had graded it MS 65 but that didn’t seem very important. Since an MS 65 1953 S nickel isn’t worth that much, I cracked it out of the slab so I could take a better picture.</p><p><br /></p><p>Almost all of you are pretty certain that the steps are incomplete. Yet I assure you that at some angles everything seems to be there. Lighting is so important.</p><p><br /></p><p>So is the quality of the photography and I’m afraid my setup is a bit lacking.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as bag marks are concerned, there is one on a step that is quite apparent at a certain angle, but it is superficial and runs across the step instead of cutting it in two. In other words, the mark does not disrupt the continuity of the step. I suppose this is the criterion that most professional coin graders use.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, thanks again, even though you have crushed my dreams.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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