Toned Franklin - new pics added.

Craton

Can't wait to see it in person and take my own pics. I'll share when it arrives.

TonedCoinTrader

Neat!

I hope them Bell Lines are full as it looks like they may be in the pic...

Scott

Whizzard

He's a beaut. Let us know about those bell lines

Lahcoin

my bet is that thing will be gorgeous. I have only one frankie and it's textiled toned and not FBL:impulse buy. I'd rather have a beautiful peripheral toned one. I think you have a beauty. Way to go! (wanna trade...just kidding

SUPERCARCOINS

.GETTER` slabbed and sell it to me !

Lahcoin

GETTER` slabbed and sell it to me !

NO...pick me....pick me!!!!

Craton

Here it is. I'm not feeling too good about the coin. The rubs on the obverse, will that bring it to an AU grade? The bottom set of bell lines are razor sharp, I can't rember which set of lines PCGS uses though ..... anyone?
I'm not too sure about the toning either. Looks like a sulpher (matches) tone job to me.
What says you????

Craton

Taken from the PCGS website - "Full Bell Lines - Term applied to Franklin half dollars when the lower sets of bell lines are complete (FBL). Very slight disturbance of several lines is acceptable."

So it is indeed FBL.

JRocco

Hey Jason, that toning does look a t little too thick near the edges. The original set of pics made him look a little better. That does look FBL for sure.

robertpr

Looks to me like a nice mint set toner. Obverse was face up in the mint set, which was exposed and thus developed the concentric toning. Reverse was face down in the mint set, flush against the back paper in the set, thus it developed more even and monotone toning than the obverse. What looks like rub could very well be (and in fact probably is) weakness of strike. My only concern would be the dark spot on the neck in the second picture, which does not appear in the first picture. What's up with that? A nice coin though, and a good grab. And yes I would consider that a FBL coin.

Ronyahski

Jason - I'd guess your suspicions are right. High points on the obv. looks like quite a bit of luster break, so if it looks like rub to you, probably is = AU. Look at straps around bell support - they look toned a different color, which is indication luster is rubbed off. Toning does not look out of a mint set to me either.

Craton

The coin has better luster then my pic shows. I'm starting to warm up to it but like you noticed, it has that large black spot on Bens neck that wasn't in the first picture. I'm sure that I could remove the spot ..... it's probably a drop o' spit or something else gross like that

SUPERCARCOINS

.............we sez it looks o.k, but i`d be afraid to get it back from PCGS

Connecticoin

Hmmm, that auction photo looks like the spot may have been Photoshopped out.

If you paid decent money for it, you might want to try to return it. If you paid "rip" money for it (i.e. $15) you might want to just keep it but not slab it.

SUPERCARCOINS

,,,,That feller is right - that huge black spot is nowhere to be seen in first photo

bushmaster8

That kinda looks like the AT that our Pharmer sells!

Jcarney

<< <i>So it is indeed FBL. >>



No. It is a PCGS FBL.

Edited to clarify: Not saying YOUR coin isn't a FBL coin, just that PCGS's description of a FBL coin is just that, their description. I prefer to look at both sets of lines to determine whether or not a Franklin has FBLs, not just the bottom set.