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How did this get full steps?

MJPHELANMJPHELAN Posts: 800 ✭✭✭
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It may be the photo, but I see a large nick and weak area under pillar 3. If I submitted this jefferson to pcgs, it would not come back full steps.

Full Steps?

Mark
Mark

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  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭
    Maybe under the Rev of 38 rules it was a FS but then got a designation change?

    Honestly I would have to see the coin in person to say that it was or was not a FS coin. Lighting can be tricky and hide the true detail. But then again I have seen more than 1 mistake in designations.

    Spendy/important coin to make a mistake on. I do hope it is a legit FS coin. I argue its not an MS67 image

  • geb209geb209 Posts: 375
    True but I must say that if you ignore everything but the steps, they do look full. Monticello looks like a blob.
  • ManorcourtmanManorcourtman Posts: 8,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not even close to FS in my opinion. How does this happen?? Someone needs to explain this one!! image
  • CoulportCoulport Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭
    The insert is full steps but the coin ain't.
    The most money I made are on coins I haven't sold.

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  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    pretty safe to say all are bridged...

    seems sometimes like these dogs slip thru...maybe a grader
    not familiar with the series
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  • melikecoinsmelikecoins Posts: 1,154 ✭✭
    If that were my coin it would not have gotten FS.
    The fifth step has a large break in it, not to mention the hugh nick above it.


    Glen
    I don't buy slabs I make them
  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    the nick, whether post-strike or a planchet flaw, would preclude proper PCGS designation as Full Steps. with regard to bridges, i find that looking at the steps straight on isn't the best way to determine this. i like to rotate the coin and look along the steps.

    al h.image
  • coppercoinscoppercoins Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭
    It got the FS designation because, in the words of others, nobody is perfect....and in my own words, even though they get paid thirty bucks a pop to be so.
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  • techefftecheff Posts: 2,285
    Not even close! image
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  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭
    I don't think so!

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  • sinin1sinin1 Posts: 7,500 ✭
    just the angle - if you tilt it 20 degrees to the left, I bet it would show FS
  • XpipedreamRXpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭


    << <i>just the angle - if you tilt it 20 degrees to the left, I bet it would show FS >>



    Did you check out the super-duper close up on the auction site? I know that a change in angle can be very revealing, but I have a hard time seeing that with this one. I'd like to see it to be sure.

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