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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 111915, member: 112&quot;]There are several things besides quality of strike that could limit a coin to a grade of MS64. A coin can be fully struck and still only grade MS64 - or even less. They use the bell lines as a designation on Frankies because it is hard to find them with full bell lines. But having full bell lines doesn&#039;t really mean the coin is especially well struck - it just means it has full bell lines. Other parts of a coin with full bell lines can actually be weakly struck and have less visible detail than other coins without full bell lines. The same is true of all the special designations.</p><p><br /></p><p>But not everybody knows that. What they know is that FBL is the designation used for Frankies, so that somehow makes them special and thus they often have higher prices than coins that are graded even higher. It&#039;s just the way the market works - which doesn&#039;t mean it has to make sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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