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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3328937, member: 19165&quot;]There are a few factors which have hurt the Franklin. I used to be a serious collector of Franklins, built an award-winning set, and then sold it. </p><p><br /></p><p>For a few years, Franklins were quite popular. This peaked in the early teens. Yes, the hobby as a whole has been sorta treading water (or going down, depending on who you ask), but Franklins declined more than the rest of the hobby. </p><p><br /></p><p>Overgrading was part of it. Grading Franklins felt like the wild west - you&#039;d see 65s that should have been 63s, 67s that should have been 65s, anything with attractive color shot up multiple grades.... It was chaos. </p><p><br /></p><p>The dominance of the ridiculously inadequate PCGS &quot;standard&quot; for FBL and CAC&#039;s blind following hurt the sector even more. When collectors realized that their so-called FBL coins weren&#039;t actually FBL, I think many people soured on the venture. Some FBL dates are legitimately scarce, but many of them are quite common, as Skyman mentions. And when you use the loose standard of PCGS, they become quite easier to obtain. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sectors rise, sectors fall, and nobody can predict the whims of the collector. Franklins have never been the most popular series to collect, so it was really more of a surprise when they were getting hot a few years ago than that they cooled off after that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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