Feels like a Franklin!!

Che_Grapes

Feels like a stranger - franklins tower…
When the dead played that combo we called it “feels like a Franklin….”

Speaking of franklins - here’s one I found at a pawn shop and had graded.
I actually thought it would grade higher - I can’t find even the slightest scratch or ding anywhere on the coin. Under magnification it is flawless / not sure why it didn’t grade 69 at least!

NeophyteNumismatist

Always better to have a 65 that looks like a 69 than the inverse scenario. Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Smudge

Proofs are held to a high standard.

BuffaloIronTail

what a nice coin that is........even for a Proof!

Pete

bsshog40

Nice looking Frankie. Some hazing could be the culprit.

Namvet69

Nice find. Grader saw sumptin.

ricko

That is a very nice Franklin proof.... As has been said here many times, cannot grade proofs from pictures.... In hand, as the graders do, perhaps there are minor hairlines or miniscule tics, or the hazing.... Still a nice coin. Cheers, RickO

Kurisu

Enjoy Franklins...and still love the Dead.
Many shows in my past...a handful in the last few years.

In another time's forgotten space
Your eyes looked from your mother's face
Wildflower seed on the sand and stone
May the four winds blow you safely home

I'll tell you where the four winds dwell
In Franklin's tower, there hangs a bell
It can ring, turn night to day
It can ring like fire when you lose your way

God save the child that rings that bell
It may have one good ring, baby, you can't tell
One watch by night, one watch by day
If you get confused, listen to the music play

Joe_360

@Kurisu
"Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Drome, time for this one to come home."

FlyingAl

Most proofs have hairlines that are difficult to see. At a 65, when you twirl the coin in the light you should see the hairlines.

Che_Grapes

@Kurisu said:
Enjoy Franklins...and still love the Dead.
Many shows in my past...a handful in the last few years.

I was a huge Garcia fan - have been to over 70 shows - late 80s early 90s … both dead and JGB …

Kurisu

@Che_Grapes said:

@Kurisu said:
Enjoy Franklins...and still love the Dead.
Many shows in my past...a handful in the last few years.

I was a huge Garcia fan - have been to over 70 shows - late 80s early 90s … both dead and JGB …

Almost ditto for me Mostly East coast.

Kurisu

@Joe_360 said:
@Kurisu
"Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Drome, time for this one to come home."

Mr. Wizard

Che_Grapes

“See here how everything lead up to this day
And it's just like any other day that's ever been
Sun going up and then the sun going down
Shine through my window and my friends they come around
Come around, come around”

Black Peter - one of My all time favorite dead songs

Love ya all - know my love will not fade away —

pmh1nic

There are things that won't show up in a photograph that could easily knock a coin from 70 to 69. When you're talking lofty grades like 69 and 70 you have to have the coin in hand to accurately grade it.

Che_Grapes

I won’t slave for beggars pay
Likewise golden jewels
But I would slave to learn the way
To sink your ship of fools …!

dhikewhitney

All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars.
I could pay you back with one good hand. —Loser

Che_Grapes

@dhikewhitney said:
All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars.
I could pay you back with one good hand. —Loser

You can look the wide world over
And you’ll never find another honest man!