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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 404328, member: 5233&quot;]The names are just as they sound.</p><p><br /></p><p>FSB on Dimes has to do with the bands on the reverse.&nbsp; On the reverse of the Mercury Dime, there is a rod that has 3 sets of horizontal bands on them.&nbsp; On well strike coins, there will be a horizontal line (2 lines on the top band) down the middle of each band.&nbsp; Here is a picture, notice the horizontal lines:</p><p><a href="http://www.numismaticnews.net/flipside/content/binary/cm1916b.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismaticnews.net/flipside/content/binary/cm1916b.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.numismaticnews.net/flipside/content/binary/cm1916b.jpg</a></p><p>The Roosevelt Dime has similar bands on the reverse on the torch.&nbsp; Sometimes Roosevelt&#039;s Use FT for Full Torch rather than FSB</p><p><br /></p><p>FBL on Franklin&#039;s is the same sort of the thing.&nbsp; The bell on the back has horizontal lines and they tend to fade out on weakly struck examples.&nbsp; Only examples with really nice strikes have lines running through the whole belling earning the FBL names.</p><p><br /></p><p>Full Head simply indicates a really nicely struck obverse on the Standing Liberty Quarter in which Liberty&#039;s head is shown in full detail.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, a nicely struck Jefferson nickel will have the steps on the reverse on Monticello fully struck.&nbsp; On most nickels, the horizontal lines that make up the steps run together and fade out...only and the best strikes do they appear full.&nbsp; Depending on the year of the nickel, there are different reverses.&nbsp; Some have 5 steps while others have 6.</p><p><br /></p><p>In all cases, the notation (FBL, FH, ect...) all indicate a superb strike.&nbsp; These do carry a premium but it all depends on the coin.&nbsp; Some years, specific coins are known to have especially poor strikes...so a fully struck example will be much more rare and carry a large premium.&nbsp; Some years, they don&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the cameo effect on proofs.&nbsp; That is due to the die being very highly polished creating a frost white appearance to all raised surfaces.&nbsp; Depending on the degree and strength of the white, the term cameo or deep cameo may apply.&nbsp; Plus, deep cameo vs ultra cameo is the same thing...one is a PCGS term and the other a NGC term.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this image, notice how the head of Jefferson is white while the rest of the surface is mirror.&nbsp; All the raised areas are white...that&#039;s the cameo effect.&nbsp; Cameo proofs are common on American proof sets since 1970, any of the modern proofs is expected to be cameo.&nbsp; Before that, only really nice examples have the cameo effect.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.carlwohlforth.com/1978-S-Jeff-Pr69DCam-Obv.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carlwohlforth.com/1978-S-Jeff-Pr69DCam-Obv.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.carlwohlforth.com/1978-S-Jeff-Pr69DCam-Obv.jpg</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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