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Forget FT or FB for the roosies!!! Pick FBT or FTB instead!!!!

orevilleoreville Posts: 12,002 ✭✭✭✭✭
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You have it all wrong.

The term should be "FTB." FULL TORCH BANDS.

OR "FBT" FULL BANDS TORCH.

Why???? You need a distinction between Full Bands for mercs and roosies. So FB is out.

FT is also out. Full Torch WHAT???????????

FTB or FBT follows the precedent set by the Franklin halves FBL FULL BELL LINES, also a three letter acronym. Did PCGS call the lines on the Liberty Bell FB (FULL BELL(S) )???? Of course NOT!!

Add FTB as well as FBT to the poll and I predict overwhelming support for at least one of them.

I only request that I be annointed as the father of either FTB or FBT or both. image

If such acronym is selected I only ask for a lifetime of free grading of roosies from PCGS. image
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  • MonstavetMonstavet Posts: 1,235 ✭✭
    How 'bout "SPB" for Straight to Piggy Bank, which is where all of my Roosies go... hehehehhe

    Okay, that was slightly mean & evil...somebody has to be....
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  • ms700ms700 Posts: 63 ✭
    Really like that FTB! It matches the FBL lettering concept for Franklins.

  • quattrocoinsquattrocoins Posts: 1,881
    "FFB" for Mercs, then! image

    FULL Heads RULE!
  • ms700ms700 Posts: 63 ✭
    I don't disagree with FFB but most collectors don't even know what is on the reverse of the mercury dime. It used to be called FSB but got changed to FB over the years. I have collected roosevelt dimes for many years and we roosevelt collectors always called the full struck ones full torch bands, not full bands as it would get too confusing since most of us are also mercury dime collectors.
    A short futuristic conversation follows:
    "Oh I just got a new FB dime."
    "Oh really? What grade?"
    "Oh a MS-69FB dime."
    "What??? There are so few MS-69FB Mercuries out there!"
    "Oh sorry, I didn't tell you it was a Roosevelt Dime in FB? Hmm, maybe we should have used that FTB to make it easier? I guess we blew it when we had the chance years ago to call it FTB?"
  • quattrocoinsquattrocoins Posts: 1,881
    Why leave out the year?!? Pretty important detail that would make all the difference! imageimageimage

    Don

    Full Bands and



    FULL Heads RULE!
  • ms700ms700 Posts: 63 ✭
    Year, why do we have to mention a year. Type collectors don't care about years! No other series uses the same symbols as another series up to now for mint state coins. To use FB would be a very bad precedent. A very BAD mistake.
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