Is This Considered Full Bands On A Mercury Dime?

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James Lackeys Coins505 Valued Member United States 75 Posts	Posted 01/19/2020 05:13 am It looks like full bands to me but I'm not sure, any opinions? Report this Post to the Staff

sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 01/19/2020 06:56 am The bands are only barely split. For Fully Split Bands, theu have to have their tops rounded like an old fashioned loaf of bread, as well as being very obviously split. That is why FSB's are so scarce. It is possible to have an MS++ Mercury, without obviously split bands. Basically, you have to have a sharp strike, to go the high grade. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coin pictured is very nice, anyway. Report this Post to the Staff
T-BOP Rest in Peace United States 18456 Posts	Posted 01/19/2020 10:19 am Looks like The top bands don't make it . Reverse of coin looks real nice but not a FSB Merc . Report this Post to the Staff
James Lackeys Coins505 Valued Member United States 75 Posts	Posted 01/19/2020 12:19 pm Thank you for all the knowledge. I wasn't expecting it to be full bands but I sure was hoping lol. Report this Post to the Staff
just carl Bedrock of the Community United States 20753 Posts	Posted 01/20/2020 11:02 pm That one would still be considered Full bands by some but still not perfectly Full. That flatness of some of those sort of makes them almost full but not quite. Kind of lots of opinions on exactly what is full and what is not. So called experts always want those horizontal bands rounded to make them called FSB. Others are willing to take yours as OK though. Report this Post to the Staff
merclover Bedrock of the Community United States 10635 Posts	Posted 01/23/2020 9:17 pm This coin posted in this thread is not FSB, in my opinion. There seems to be a misunderstanding as to what Full Split Bands is, so I copied the following directly from the PCGS website: "Although the central bands must be fully separated with no interruption, it is not necessary to have full roundness to the bands." Report this Post to the Staff
one_fine_dime Pillar of the Community United States 591 Posts	Posted 01/26/2020 3:03 pm Yep, merclover's excerpt from PCGS can be found here: https://www.PCGS.com/news/mercury-d...h-full-bands This also includes the following, "To PCGS graders, a Mercury dime with full band details will have fully separated horizontal bands on the central part of the fasces (the bundle of rods on the reverse). In addition, there can be no interruption on the trough (depression) of the bands due to strike, contact, planchet problems or any other damage, whether mint caused or not, if the coin is to obtain the PCGS Full Band designation." Based on your first macro-zoom photo, I'd guess PCGS/NGC would not determine this specimen to meet "FB" (full bands) due to the lack of separation at the very middle of the central bands. Report this Post to the Staff
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