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On the plus side of the equation. Here is a 1950-D Franklin that came in today. It's impossible to get good representative photos on the obverse toning. It's dark red with a golden glow. If you had this one in hand you would be giving it an "Wow". Thoughts of grade or FBL? Paleoguy   |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Probably an end of the roll coin. Reverse looks MS-64 but hard to tell what is going on the the obverse fields.
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I really like a toned Franklin but you have to just get the angle right to photograph them. I'm sure yours is stunning as I trust your eye. As for grade I would go MS 63-64 with the contact marks I see from your photos. FBL I would say yes but I have difficulty grading this series.
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My guess, mostly from the rev and what appears to be hits in the hair, on the temple, and on the cheek, MS62/3.
The one hard hit may keep it from FBL. The bell lines don't show up very well in the pic..
Edited by Las_Vegas_Larry
08/13/2012 5:31 pm
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It's dark red with a golden glow. If you had this one in hand you would be giving it an "Wow". I wanna see, I wanna see.  Despite the lack of glow, I like him.  |
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Thats a 64, and no FBL as those dings interrupt them.
And I am with jbuck here, I wanna see the true color on that toning. Get a better camera! LOL
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Here's a little tease of color... I'll try more stuff later. PG   |
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FBL=full bell line.
It looks like Ben has a serious sun burn in that photo!
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I am not sure that a ding would prevent an FBL assignment. It does, however, look like the bottom groove is incomplete, which should prevent the FBL assignment.
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jbuck and/or captainwiffo... that picture, or whatever you call it, is awesome.
paleoguy45, it looks like a nice coin. I would probably say its a 64, no fbl for the reasons smokeriderdon gave.
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awesome effect jbuck...very pretty coin
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All of the credit goes to CaptainFwiffo, it is his awesome photo and coin.  |
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I think the new pictures are better: 
1920 Mercury Dime by CaptainFwiffo, on FlickrI can provide similar pictures of the Franklin above if it is donated to the CaptainFwiffo collection. |
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Posted 08/13/2012 5:12 pm
