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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BigDowgie, post: 487343, member: 16203&quot;]<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">WOW, jody526, your step grading is pretty tough! I agree with the full and unbroken lines being required.&nbsp; However, to require all five step lines (or six steps) as your &quot;full step&quot; designation removes more than just a few early date coins from ever being considered &quot;full step&quot;.&nbsp; But that is a discussion for another post.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Back to helping Nickeldude.&nbsp; </font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">You will need to learn what &quot;full step&quot; means for PCGS.&nbsp; The Nagengast Book will help you understand how the steps are defined.&nbsp; </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Some great dates to start with would be the 1938&#039;s and 1939&#039;s. These are the first two years and present some great challenges.&nbsp; A few will be easy and few will be tough!</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">1938 MS65FS, $80 to $100</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">1938-D MS65FS, $110 to $150</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">1938-S MS65FS, $200+ </font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">You have to be careful with the steps on the 1938&#039;s.&nbsp; They are wavy and less defined and are called &quot;Reverse 38&quot; steps, as there are 1939&#039;s with these steps and the newly detailed steps of 1940, or called &quot;Reverse 40&quot; steps.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">There are 6 1939 coins, in my opinion, that need to be in your set.&nbsp; Each mint has the Reverse 38 and Reverse 40 steps.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">1939 Rev38 Tough, MS64FS, 200+</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">1939 Rev40 MS66FS, $100 should be able to find a nice one! </font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">1939-D and 1939-S both Rev38 and Rev40 are all tough.&nbsp; Buy what you can afford.&nbsp; MS64FS coins probably be in the $150 range and go up from there.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Just one place to start!</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Enjoy</font></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Dowgie</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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