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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jody526, post: 238949, member: 578&quot;]Hello,</p><p><br /></p><p>You can go ahead and open them.</p><p>They go for about $15 on eBay, but if you were to try to sell them to a dealer, you&#039;d probably get a lot less.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it&#039;s better to wear clean, white cotton gloves when handling BU coins, to avoid getting oily fingerprints on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>A &quot;full step&quot; coin is simply a coin that is particularly well struck, and unscarred, in one small area of the entire design.</p><p>Bernard Nagengast only counted those coins that had five, of a possible six, uninterrupted full steps, and would have graded at least MS-65.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll see if these pics will be of any help.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is &quot;full steps&quot;.</p><p><img src="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/jody526/6fs.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is not.</p><p><img src="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/jody526/5fs.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And this is not.</p><p><img src="http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a7/jody526/nonfs.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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