NICKEL STEPS
gabrielgabbey
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80's nickels w/ FS are getting challenging to find. Here's an '86. Let me how many steps can be identified? I had to repost w/ the correct picture.
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Zero. This coin is damaged and looks to never have had full steps.
5 to 6 Steps are ideal on pre 2006 nickels. All after 06 should have full steps.
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But it's struck backwards.
Very cool error!
It's only full steps if you climb up the left side. otherwise you'll just slip back down.
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I think that the best way for new collectors of this series to learn to grade Jefferson nickels and steps is by posting a stream of coins they can compare their coins to. Most of the following grade MS64 to MS66 with a couple showing closeup steps. I hope this helps the OP.
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Look at some proofs. The steps must go all the way across the entrance.
And nickels with numerous chatter or scattered marks or flecks, a coin needs to be turned/tilted to an acute angle/45 degrees to the light to see these marks, will subsequently grade MS60 to MS63.
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....and little or nothing interferes with the continuation of the steps. Nicks, hits to the steps. Bridges in or the melding of the steps. I think not having a common terminology all collectors can understand and relate to others with, is a great obstacle in properly/simplifying, describing a coin's positive and negative points. All too often, all one hears are the positive points and most of the time we hear/learn nothing. Only a MS grade is opined/given and the rest is imagined.
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