Now that you've taken the crash course - It's time to GRADE THOSE FRANKIES!

FC57Coins

Glad some of you have had a chance to read my post on Grading Frankies. I got a roll of beautiful UNC 49 Franklins recently and they're on their way to PCGS for grading - I thought it'd be fun to try to grade them and see how we all do - I'll start off by saying that they're all blast white (very unusual if you read the thread on the 1949P) some have even highly reflective fields - that's why the pictures look a little dark on some, but I think you can see the detail fairly well.

Frankie1



Frankie2



Frankie3



Frankie4

LucyBop

hmmmm......

mgoodm3

They seem to get better as you go down. I'll say 63,64,64,65 all look like they got good bell lines.

Aethelred

All are EF-45!

ClausUrch

#1 MS64FBL
#2 MS65FBL
#3 MS64FBL
#4 MS65FBL

Oldnewbie

64,63,64,65

FC57Coins

Whatcha think Lucille?

LucyBop

I think if I had them raw and in my hand I could be very very close to what they would grade/holder.......

FC57Coins

True enough - it's hard to grade from pics - but I just thought it'd be fun for a Sunday nite

rainbowroosie

63
65
64
64 all FBL

Purple73

Frankie 1: MS 63 FBL

Frankie 2: MS 64 FBL

Frankie 3: MS 64 FBL dings on reverse 3 7 and 9 o'clock on the feild

Frankie 4: MS 64 FBL mark from 6 to 9 o'clock above IN GOD WE


PURPLE!

dlimb2

I say:
#1 63 FBL
#2 64 FBL
#3 64 FBL
#4 65 FBL

FC57Coins

For what it's worth here's my assessment:

Coin 1: is actually an extremely reflective and really nice coin. There are a lot of small tick marks on the bust, however the strike is absolutely gorgeous, probably from a brand new pair of dies. I pegged this one right at the cusp of MS63FBL and MS64FBL. Depending on what kind of a day the graders are having they might go either way.

Coin 2: is a beauty - Blast white, good strike, and actually the marks on the bust are augmented in this picture. In hand it looks pretty darned nice. I pegged this one MS65FBL

Coin 3: not quite as nice as the one above with maybe just too much chatter on the bust to make it past MS64FBL

Coin 4: is just about as good as coin 2. Very bright white, great strike - the only thing it might get nailed on is roll rub on the bell. I put this one at MS64FBL, MS65FBL if they overlook the roll rub.

Everyone was really close on the grades, and heck - I could be wrong, but we were all in the same basic ballpark within a grade of eachother. So we'll see how everything comes out - Sometime this summer I'm afraid