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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 669059, member: 112&quot;]No, this is not correct. The date of the coin had nothing to do with it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>This is only partially correct. As I said before, ANACS and PCGS always used the same standard for assigning the FS designation. As long as the coin had 5, 5.5 or 6 full steps, then ANACS and PCGS would assign the FS designation to the coin. On th ewritten insert of the slab however, PCGS would only list FS. ANACS would list 5 FS, 5.5 FS or 6 FS.</p><p><br /></p><p>But again, the date of the coin had nothing to do with it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>There is isn&#039;t any guideline that I am aware of because PCGS does not specify any difference. PCGS doesn&#039;t care whether the coin has 5 steps, 5 1/2 steps or 6 steps. To them they are all the same and all are marked as FS.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>I certainly didn&#039;t realize that you were think that the date of the coin had some bearing on whether or not the coin could get the FS designation. But as I said before, the date has nothing to do with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, what the date does have to do with is this. There are some dates where there is not even 1 coin that has been given the FS designation. There are other dates where only a few coins have ever received that designation. But that is because so far, nobody has found one that actually had at least 5 full steps, or only very few have ever bene found.</p><p><br /></p><p>The TPG&#039;s would gladly, with joy in their hearts and song on their lips, assign the FS designation to these coins - if only somebody would send them one that actually had the full steps. None, or very few do, as the case may be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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