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ohmygosh!! Two early Jeffs in MS69!!!

DennisHDennisH Posts: 13,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Last time I looked at the on-line PCGS Pop Report it said there were only a couple of early Jefferson nickels that had ever been graded MS68. Now I see there are two in MS69!!!! imageimageimageimage -- a 1939-D reverse of 1940 (wow!) and a 1940-P. Both are non-Full Steps.

Does anybody know any details about these coins? My brain is still trying to imagine what an MS68 looks like; MS69 just doesn't compute at all.
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  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    Wow!!! That is a shocking development when, for many dates, MS66 is as good as it gets!

    I would really, really doubt that these are MS68 crackouts, either!

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  • bushmaster8bushmaster8 Posts: 5,616 ✭
    Methinks shifting grading standards are the culprit.
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  • clackamasclackamas Posts: 5,615 ✭
    I bet they are mistakes.
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 24,166 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Without looking at the pop report: If they are late fifties "P" mint, I'd guess they're really PR69's rather than MS (as stated above: a mistake!).
  • segojasegoja Posts: 6,136 ✭✭✭✭
    Still big coins as Proof 69!
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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 13,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How could they possibly mistake a 1939-D Reverse of 1940 for a proof? That's what one of the 69s is.
    When in doubt, don't.
  • haletjhaletj Posts: 2,192 ✭
    How could a coin without a full strike, i.e. full steps... grade ms69? Sounds ridiculous.
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