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How many complete steps do you see?
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This is not a pcgs graded coin but this description is accurate 
How many complete steps do you see?
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To be honest I only see four. Other people might disagree, but the bottom fifth step looks to be too convoluted on the right side. Did PCGS grade this as a FS?
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I see 4 to
Top step plus the four under it equals five.
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Changing my vote from two to zero.
You don't think the top step is full?
This is not a PCGS coin. It was graded by another company.
It is a coin going for over $3,000 exclusively because of its “full step” designation.
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Are there steps there? Yes in my opinion. Are they full? Unequivocally NO in my opinion
I do not see a single complete step. Nicks, hits, steps bridged, incomplete (not fully struck). Not even one is complete or “full” in my opinion as per PCGS definition.
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I see 4 rough looking steps.
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There are two tops steps. Which one? (They look like a twizzler.)
I see top and 2nd and 3rd I'm giving with a maybe. There is a reason 5 step Jeffs are so valuable.
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I see 4 steps. But that may be because of the lighting. I believe there are 5 steps possible. Here's a photo of a photograde photo of what full steps looks like:
The top step and second step are full, the other four have contact marks that bridge multiple steps or are merged with another step.
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I collect Jeffersons. Full steps dont interest me. Full strikes do. Not the same thing btw
To me It would be like asking for this
Then getting and paying full price for this
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I only see 4 steps
The problem I have is with the steps under column 2. I would have to see it in hand if it is there then it is FS
You can see the original PCGS page with the photos using the wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150121083238/https://www.pcgs.com/news/tips-from-the-grading-room-part-3
Nice link @Clackamas1
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My two cents. Please correct me if this is wrong.
A full step nickel must have six steps separated by a distinct line. The top step is number 1. A coin can have these full steps as described HOWEVER, if there is any kind of mark across a line for each set THEN THAT FULL STEP NICKEL DOES NOT GET THE FS DESIGNATION.
I vote that the OP's coin has three complete steps because the fourth and others are not complete.
5 full steps. Many will have 6 steps depending on the date/mm and die style.
PCGS stopped assigning the FS designation to meet their published criteria a long time ago.
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Samson has done messed with that column. It seems there are four.
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The top ‘step’, broken by design by the two center pillars, is not a step.
I count (4).
If the top fifth step is actually considered a step, then I see three full steps, otherwise, I only see two.
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The first step is the one you step off of at floor level.
Something to consider: the view of the steps depicted on the Jefferson Nickel is of the back entrance to Monticello and not the more dramatic front. As such, the rear has one less step than the front. If that top step, technically referred to as a "Stylobate" in classic architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylobate isn't counted as a step then no 6-step coin could exist.
Some methodologies use the word stylobate to describe only the topmost step of the temple's base, while stereobate is used to describe the remaining steps of the platform beneath the stylobate and just above the leveling course. Others, like John Lord,[4] use the term to refer to the entire platform.
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I learned that the first step counted is the solid bar between the top of the steps to the first incuse line defining that step and so on to the second bar (step).
I only see 4 steps.
3 steps,,,
I see 5 steps, if you claw your way to the top.
The fifth step being the landing, I consider it a step.
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