Sorry for the pics being small but I can't seem to make them bigger without the image getting really blurry. Please help me grade it if you can.:smile
Hi, this isn't my series, but when I enlarge the images with my browser, I see a few marks on Ben's cheek, but the bell looks pretty clean. I'm going to guess 64, but that's really off the cuff and probably wrong.
I would gade it a MS63 there are alot of blemishes and bag marks on the fields the coin has nice luster but it's hard to grade by pics like this , JC
not the toning, but the flowlines of the metal. Does the luster cartwheel, or does it seem to flow in one direction.
Nah it cartwheels. I have never seen that except on harshly cleaned coins but I imagine it would look fairly awkward and I wouldn't buy a coin like that.
The description from my NGC Registry set: One of the better struck Franklins of the entire series, the 1952D is the second in the series from 1951 to 1954 that comes very well struck from the Denver mint, what I like to call the four sisters. It has the second highest mintage in this short set at 25.395 million (the 1954D beats it by 50k), but about half of them qualify for FBL. Frank Chiong describes the luster on the 1952D as “the creamy variety,” meaning of course that the luster is usually subdued. Bagmarks are typically present in large quantities – apparently the dies were well handled and the coins were well struck, but the mint employees didn’t take the care to preserve their product. Tomaska says that color coins for this issue are very rare, with most being drab, mottled mint set toning. Your coin seems to fit this description rather well. The luster appears to be a bit better than normal, which gives the grade a boost in my opinion. Your closeup pic of the bell lines don't make it look full, but pictures can easily be deceiving. Given the date, I would be inclined to say it probably is FBL. I wish you could give us a better pictures, but just from that small pic I would say 64 FBL.
