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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RedTiger, post: 836415, member: 19098&quot;]Your coin looks nice enough. However, your pics are 160 by 136 pixels. At least 600 by 600 pixels or 1024 by 1024 is needed for determination of grade. For high mint state coins, seeing the coin in person is really necessary.</p><p><br /></p><p>The old cliche is that ownership adds a point to the grade. For novices (less than five years in the hobby), it is often more like two or three points. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Heritage auction link you provided, shows pop 15/0 at PCGS MS66 for 1962 Franklins, and pop 17/2 at NGC for MS66. So again, while there is a chance that you might have the nicest of all Franklins for that date, the odds are against it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Franklin half collectors have scoured most every cache of mint sets and album sets for the nicest coins for the past 20 years. Many coins have been sent in for grading multiple times hoping for that jackpot grade. All that searching and submitting has yielded 34 coins at the MS66 or better level. That 34 doesn&#039;t include any double submits, so there are probably maybe less than 20 coins at that grade or better for the date. </p><p><br /></p><p>So while you might indeed have a coin at that top grade or better, the odds are maybe 1 in 1,000 that you do. It&#039;s nothing personal, I&#039;m just saying...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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