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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;QUEENKOIN, post: 7173, member: 656&quot;]I believe the 56 Type 2 to be one of the most common Cameo/DCAM coin to find. Often they are heavily frosted. Now the top two grading services, PCGs/NGC both say that a DCAM/Ultra Cam must be without frost breaks. Look at the 56 I had graded at PCGs:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.hepcatradio.com/delete/56dcam-20.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Notice that there are frost breaks on the three wisps of hair to the right of the ear, and notice also the breaks on that one strand of hair. Yet PCGs gave me a PR68DCAM on this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every single DCAM/Ultra Cam 56 Type two that I have seen has these same exact characteristics. And the grading companys seem to make a exception in this particular year. Now the question pops up, why these frost breaks on so many coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>Could it be that the mint stacked them after striking them? As these areas are the high points of the coin... Or, since these have the highest relief, it could be that when the Mint polished and prepared the dies that they missed this recessed areas of the dies thus resulting with a die that doesn&#039;t produce the cameo effect in this area...</p><p><br /></p><p>This 56 has super strong mirrors, notice again, how Frankies face reflects several times over in the mirrors/field of the coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.hepcatradio.com/delete/56dcam-25.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As I said in another thread, these deep mirrors are the key to a DCAM with PCGs... Not every Cameo coin will have deep mirrors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now for the Reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.hepcatradio.com/delete/56dcam-21.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>the Reverse is the key to the 56 Frankie and is where the Type 1 and Type 2 designation comes into play. In mid 56 the Master die for proofs was re-worked resulting in a different more detailed Eagle on the reverse. The easiest way to learn the difference is to look at a 55 or earlier proof reverse and compare that with a 57 and later Eagle...</p><p><br /></p><p>Why is this important to know? Because the Type 1 is the scarcer coin and in DCAM would be a major score worth many many thousands of dollars....</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a close up of a Type 1 Eagle:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.hepcatradio.com/type1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a close up of a Type 2 Eagle:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.hepcatradio.com/type2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Notices the differences, the Type 1 Eagle has a pointy beak, lack of detail in the breast feathers and in the feathers on the Eagles wings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Notice how well defined these areas are on the Type 2 Eagle...... </p><p><br /></p><p>Happy searching for that elusive Cameo/Dcam Type 1, I will add, that some of the grading companys donot catch a type 1, and you can discover a un-designated gem in professionaly graded holder.....</p><p><br /></p><p>Lucille[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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