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Any thoughts? It looks like it may qualify comparing it to a few other examples.   |
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Rest in Peace
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 ,the very bottom step is not full .  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Here is a test for see if you can spot the full step/steps on these images?  (Which I hate to spend my time even to look at these) |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Interesting..... but not correct.
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Pillar of the Community
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Not FS...step right above "C" looks crushed
Coop, I'll go with D
Edited by Greasy Fingers
08/31/2019 11:16 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Well you found one of them.
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Pillar of the Community
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More than one, well how about B ?
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Pillar of the Community
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This why I did not choose D:  Why does not this section DQ this example D from being a FS. Neither can I find the other FS example . |
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I would have said none also , maybe I'm too picky or eyes not very good anymore .  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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'F'' is a normal one. In a few more minutes I'll reveal what I feel they grade on, that most collectors don't realize on these.
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Pillar of the Community
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If you look on the CoinFacts app there are some very surprising full steps!
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Bedrock of the Community
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When I've looked at these through the years, the certified ones on the PCGS, I disagreed with them about 100% of the time. Then I started to look deeper at them. I always considered the treads as the disqualifying point. But realized they were grading according to the risers, and not the treads. (I know what is a tread and a riser. When you look at a stairway, the treads are the step you food stands on to help you climb the stairs. A riser is what holds the treads in place. So when you look at the nickel reverse, the treads are the raised lines on the steps, and the risers are the incuse areas on the steps. So looking at the possibility that the risers were what they were grading by, not the treads:   So unlike the Full split bands, which were easy to figure out, these full steps were a mystery until I figured out what I was missing on them. To me they are not all that interesting. But always good to know what is really going on.  Here is the larger images of the graded full steps from PCGS. (But not that I agree with them either) Just what I see most of the time, they are grading by the risers and not the treads/steps. Edited by coop
09/01/2019 3:47 pm
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Nice presentation, coop. I was into full steppers until I started seeing coins, mostly from the 1950s, that had full steps but am ugly, weak strike elsewhere. Now instead I favor for a nice EDS, overally strong strike regardless of how many steps are complete. As it turns out usually such coins will have most steps (or risers) visible anyhow since that comes naturally as part of a good strike.
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Posted 08/31/2019 9:57 pm
