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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 4998553, member: 15309&quot;]Lol, that&#039;s cheating.</p><p><br /></p><p>So anyone who has ever seen my registry collection knows two things.&nbsp; I love eye appeal first and foremost, and second, I am not a slave to the full step designation or the additional registry points it often affords.</p><p><br /></p><p>As most of you have surmised, the semi prooflike full stepper was my existing registry coin and was worth a whopping 1558 registry points.&nbsp; The problem is that almost every other coin in my collection has brilliant luster and it always made this coin seem out of place.&nbsp; Additionally, the nature of the prooflike surfaces accentuates every little mark on the coin making it appear overgraded at first glance.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/VL808pX.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is really nothing wrong with the coin other than it just doesn&#039;t fit well into my collection.&nbsp; I purchased the new 1959 with the intention of flipping it on eBay since it is only worth 442 registry points, but once I saw this absolutely blazing coin in hand, I knew the MS66 5FS was going up on the block.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Lf7RnoE.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Strike designations are somewhat of a curse IMO.&nbsp; Not only because they make collectors slaves to a very small area of the coin, but because they do it at the expense of the rest of the coin.&nbsp; The TPGs would have you believe that Full Steps on a Jefferson Nickel is the leading indicator of the quality of strike and nothing could be further from the truth.&nbsp; Take these two coins for example.&nbsp; The full step designation programs us to instantly look at the reverse, compare the step detail, and then compare the details of Monticello.&nbsp; And that would be fine if there wasn&#039;t another side to the coin.&nbsp; If I asked most people, they would say that the prooflike coin is the better struck coin.&nbsp; But If we look closely, the obverse of the MS67 is clearly better struck than the MS66 5FS.&nbsp; And I would say that the degree to which the MS67 has a better stuck obverse than the MS66 5FS exceeds the degree to which the MS66 5FS has a better struck reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, it is coins like these that shine a light on how different collectors have different preferences within the coin grading spectrum.&nbsp; Those who prefer blazing luster and eye appeal will usually choose the MS67, whereas those who covet strike and full details will usually choose the MS66 5FS.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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