Got my 45P jefferson registry coin back from review

Older Jefferson nickels are classified as Full Steps w/ only 5 steps... Newer nickels are called Full Steps only if they 6 steps. Unless things have changed while I was asleep. I'm not sure when the date is that the count changes. But your '45 is a 5 step Full Stepper.
And I wish I had recieved that gorgeous nickle in trade for a white one..I think you hit the lottery.

 

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At shows, dealer inventory etc.

 

With NGC anything before 2004 was just FS, and regardless of early or late date it had to be 6 steps, if it was 5 steps they would not put any step designation on it. Now they designate any jefferson regardless of age as either 5FS or 6FS. So naturally when I got mine back and it said FS I would assume that to be 6 steps because it was from an older holder, they say now that this is most likely the case but they won't tell me anything until I send it back in for review. Thanks for the compliment, but I did work long and hard to have a matched white set, it is nice but it doesn't really fit with my others, so I have mixed feelings about it. OVerall I am happy but not to thrilled about sending it back and what if the next guy thinks 5 steps or neither 5 or 6 steps and I have to send it back in?

http://www.ngccoin.com/news/viewarticle.aspx?NewsletterNewsArticleID=250

 

Congrats on the upgrade!!
Even if this one does not "fit" your collection I'm sure your still happy
If not I'll find a white one to trade out for ya!

 

Nice!
Certainly worth the time and effort.
I had forgotten that the '45-P is the tough one to get FS.
My '45-P FS is only MS-65.
My MS-67 '45-P is not FS.

 

Beautiful coin.

 

For future references, once a coin develops so-called carbon spots, I say so-called because there is no carbon in the spots, just a sulfidization process at work on the surface of the coin, there is not much recourse to remove said spots.

The coin can be conditioned to halt further growth of spots, but once you have them on your coin, good-bye Joe.