1965 PCGS MS66+ Should be full steps!! Any thoughts?
jjohnson3582506
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I am attaching a picture of my 66+ graded by PCGS, and the steps from the # 1 registry set which is 1 of 2 designated. The only difference is the registry set one has damage on the leftmost side of his steps. Can anyone help, or give there thoughts on my steps? There are practically identical except mine are a little cleaner. Thanks
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Not my series at all, but I would be concerned with the convergence of step 3 (from the top) to step 4 toward the left, about 1/4 of the way down the length of the staircase, and 3 to 4 on the far right of the staircase.
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While those steps are exceptional for the date, they are not full, even taking into account the damage under the first pillar. There is a full bridge between steps 3 and 4 under the second pillar that in my mind keeps it from achieving the designation.
The better question might be how the first coin in your post was graded with full steps, the image isn't great but it seems to have the same issues as your coin.
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Both coins in the op have blends in the steps and neither should be considered as true FS examples. The fact that one is, well that is the grading game.
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I'm in the neither qualify camp. ignoring the hits, both have blended steps.
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The 5th step is totally missing.
So are the sixth and seventh and eight.
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not even close
Neither coin looks full steps to me. And they aren't very close to it.
Here's what a FS example should look like.
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Nope - close but no cigar. You can't have a break of any sort along the entire length and that includes nicks, not just poor strikes.
I have to agree with no.
@jjohnson3582506.... Welcome aboard....Another vote for neither coin has full steps....Very clear as stated in several posts above. Cheers, RickO
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My opinion: Neither one has full steps.
As Simon Cowell would say, "it's a no from me" on both nickels in the OP.
Leo's 1965 nickel looks to be quite a bit better, but it needs a more detailed close up pic. Plus Leo has one struck well on both sides. FS does nothing for me if Jefferson or Monticello looks like a smear.
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Not sure if you have seen this before, but this is a great video that goes into strike and full steps.
Judging from the video I would have to say neither should be considered FS.
If it seems that folks are being overly picky, I can only say this: For the kind of money that these coins bring, you have to be very, VERY picky.
The FS grade on the registry coin was a gift. It will probably not get full-FS $$ when it is auctioned some day.
Many collectors are confused as to what qualifies a coin to be a SMS or a business strike. Must we distinguish a well detailed strike from a weaker details strike? How lustrous or proof-like it is that tells us its a SMS or how weak and dullish for a business strike? Perhaps wired rims make this distinction which is an indicator greater coining pressure, how it was used to stamp the coin blank for SMS nickels. And, does the width of the rim tell us how worn or spread out the face of the dies have become from multiple strikes.
But there must be a window, a period of time between both type of coins if we are to make that distinction. They wouldn't have done anything with those coins, like recycle them and make more coin blanks only to stamp them again?
So it's up to the collector to take that gap into consideration and settle on how much a SMS can get or how much a business strike can be. For 1965 to 1970-S JN, there is a segment of production that is really not collectible unless, of course, a new category is created for them, ike......"the nomad nickels"!
The same holds true with the date run 2005 to date, is it a specially made mint set coin or a coin made for circulation? It's in the hair bangs with those, melded verses detailed.
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