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Rare Full Step Nickel question

BruggsBruggs Posts: 449 ✭✭
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A question for the full step collectors. When buying or certifying a really tough full step date, is any consideration made for a coin with some steps versus a coin with no steps. For example; If a guy has a 1960-D in a PCGS 66 slab and the coin has maybe 1 step and another man has the same coin in the same grade, but his coin has 4 steps visible. Do both of these coins carry the same value?

One more thing, I recently submitted a group of 50 or so Jeffersons to SEGS. Some really tough dates in this group. Why SEGS? I like the way they list step counts. I like the slab. I like the idea of listing step problems. And, I liked the price [$7.50]. I got two 1968-D's back in 5 step slabs. They [SEGS] graded one MS 65 and the steps were labeled "5 STEPS/NICKS/BRIDGES" and the step count is "6656". The other is a 64 with the same description and step count. Really the steps are nice on both, a few baggies and a little soft under the second and third pillar. I guess my question is, Anybody sold any SEGS full steppers?

Thanks guys..........
Bruggs

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  • littlewicherlittlewicher Posts: 1,822 ✭✭
    If you do good luck.


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  • STOCKFORDSTOCKFORD Posts: 1,328 ✭✭
    THE STEP COUNT IS FINE FOR PCGS THEY REALLY WANT A COUNT LIKE 6556 BUT
    WITH BRIDGES THAT MEANS THE STEPS ARE TOUCHING EACH OTHER AND A FEW NICKS THOSE COINS WOULD NOT BE GRADED WITH THE FS BY PCGS AND WOULD BE ONE GRADE LOWER THAN SEGS WITH MY EXPERINCE
    LOOKING FOR FULL STEP JEFFERSON NICKELS PCGS OR NGC
  • RonyahskiRonyahski Posts: 3,117 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bruggs - I think you bring up a great point for full-step collectors with your 60-D example. I presume that the market right now does not take into consideration the strike for non-full-step nickels, and it focuses totally on the slab designation - either it has .05 full-steps, or is does not.

    I collected full-step nickels 25 years ago and recently submitted almost 100 of them to PCGS. One of the coins I did not submit was my 1960-D. It has almost .05 steps. I consider it one of the rarest nickels I was able to find, a superior struck coin for a 60-D, and a 65 or 66. PCGS has not yet graded a .05 step 60-D, maybe they never will. I did not submit it because I don't think it will get a FS designation, and would therefore be just another slabbed non-FS nickel that nobody would pay any more for than any other slabbed 60-D. So I will just keep it and be just as proud and happy with it, with or without a slab.

    Regards
    Daryl
    Some refer to overgraded slabs as Coffins. I like to think of them as Happy Coins.
  • BruggsBruggs Posts: 449 ✭✭
    Daryl- That was one more reason I sent the coins to SEGS. I really couldn't see paying $15 or so for a slabbed 68-D nickel that didn't have a FS designation. I've looked at thousands of 68-D's and these two are the best I've ever seen. Will they cross to PCGS - I doubt it. But still these coins are very rare as such.




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