Which Franklins are Hardest in FBL?

Rampage

Please and thank you.

Richard.

darktone

53-S is the key in FBL's in all grades.

fivecents

The 1949-S, 1951-S, 1952-S and the 1953-P are also toughies in FBL.

MadMonk

It depends on how much of a purist you are. I don't go by population reports because I come from the Ehrmantraut FBL school. "Fivecents" has a pretty good list. I would add that in general, The "S" mints are typically toughest, followed by "P" mints, with the "D" mints showing the most FBL's.

Heywood

Sorry to do a hijack, but the question is related-
(Wasn't answerered last time, and I couldn't find it on a search)

Which Grading firms are strictest on FBL?

Will ANCS, NGC and PCGS FBL usually cross ?

(Answer from before was most other Graders FBL more than likely will not)


Edit - reworded my search and found this old threadFBL 12_02 thread

fivecents

<< <i>Which Grading firms are strictest on FBL? >>


NGC is the strickest on the FBL designation.
I believe that PCGS only takes the bottom set of lines into consideration to be FBL. NGC looks at both sets of lines for their FBL designation.