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Does PCGS label Jefferson Nickels as FS?

MillertimeMillertime Posts: 2,048 ✭✭
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I have a 1962 Jefferson Nickel slabbed by PCGS as MS64. With the naked eye it appears that it has a chance for FS, I can see at least 4 steps, but the label doesn't say it's FS. Does PCGS normally label the coin as FS and if they do is there a chance that this coin could still be FS.

Sorry, but my camera won't even come close to taking a picture of this kind of detail. I haven't picked up a loupe yet so I can't even be sure about the FS.

Thanks,
Millertime
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  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    They started designating FS (five full steps) several years ago. If yours is a blue
    label holder and they thought it would go FS, it would say so.

    The steps are supposed to be unbroken lines, with no nicks in them, though I've
    seen marginal coins slide through.

    Ken
  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    Interesting.

    I am looking at an ANACS slabbed Jeff. It's a 61 proof with nice colors and graded PF65 5.5 steps.

    I have another 57-D ANACS slab, graded at 64 and it says 5 steps.

    I was under the impression that FULL steps meant all six of them.

    I'm no Jeff expert, help me out. Is 5 considered full? Then what is 5.5? What is 6 steps?

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  • solidsolid Posts: 2,975
    ANACS has designated coins as 5, 5.5 or 6 steps for quite some time.

    NGC's FS designation until recently has meant 6 steps. Now they
    grade them as 5FS or 6FS.

    PCGS has always used the FS to mean 5 full steps.
  • DeadhorseDeadhorse Posts: 3,720 ✭
    Got it!

    Thanks. image
    "Lenin is certainly right. There is no subtler or more severe means of overturning the existing basis of society(destroy capitalism) than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
    John Marnard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, page 235ff
  • MillertimeMillertime Posts: 2,048 ✭✭
    Thanks for the info. Looking a little closer there might be a nick across a couple of the steps. If there is that would explain why it isn't labeled as FS on the blue label.
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  • FullStepJeffsFullStepJeffs Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Thanks for the info. Looking a little closer there might be a nick across a couple of the steps. If there is that would explain why it isn't labeled as FS on the blue label. >>




    yeap... you got it.

    You'd be surprised how many dealers don't know that PCGS grades Jeffersons with five full steps as Full Steps... I hope that wasn't proven by the last posts... image

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  • greghansengreghansen Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭
    ANACS has designated coins as 5, 5.5 or 6 steps for quite some time.
    NGC's FS designation until recently has meant 6 steps. Now they grade them as 5FS or 6FS.


    PCGS has always used the FS to mean 5 full steps.

    Wow. Talk about "Grading Full Step Jeffersons for Dummies". Thanks for the fully excellent and succinct primer and distinction between the services.

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