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Bedrock of the Community
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Wow, haven't seen that before!
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Well, if PCGS really said that, they sure like to contradict themselves... This is also on that PCGS page. Quoted below. ""For the most part, Full Bands designations are bestowed only to Mercury dimes that grade MS60 or better and exhibit a complete separation of the central crossband on the reverse of the coin. However, there are exceptions made for the rare 1916-D Mercury dime as well as the 1942/1 and 1942/1-D overdates, which can receive a Full Bands designation on a qualifying coin grading as low as AU50. In all cases, there must be no interruption of the separation of the subject crossbands, including marks, gouges, nicks, or other surface imperfections. While the definition of a Full Bands Mercury dime essentially calls for surficial perfection in the areas of the crossbands, this does not suggest that only flawless specimens are capable of achieving the coveted Full Bands designation. Again, a Mercury dime can technically earn a Full Bands designation in a grade as "low" as MS60, and a great many Mercury dimes in the MS62 and MS63 are graded as "FB.""" |
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That further input most appreciated, thanks. But it seems rather silly to award FSB status to a few rarities in AU grades but not to equally deserving but lesser-valued dates.  Edited by Coinfrog
02/27/2024 5:19 pm
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Yes, the 1916-D is one of the few Mercs that can be FB in an assigned grade below MS.
The FH designator for SLQ's is another designator that can be found on AU coins.
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But it seems rather silly to award FSB status to a few rarities in AU grades but not to equally deserving but lesser-valued dates. You're not the only one. To me that means they're not applying a "grading standard", they're passing out value enhancers to special coins (or special people). But I don't like the way they do these strike designations in general. A few bag marks had nothing to do with how well the coin was struck, yet they get rejected for it. It's way too subjective. Nice coin though, I agree with MS65 possibly 66. |
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" For the most part, Full Bands designations are bestowed only to Mercury dimes that grade MS60 or better and exhibit a complete separation of the central crossband on the reverse of the coin." This would have made my high school English teacher cringe. How can you only do something for the most part? Yes you can have exceptions, but you can't then say in the same sentence that you only do it because it implies that there are no exceptions. It's like saying that you only love your wife, except when you are cheating on her. I still remember this English teacher from nearly 40 years ago who taught me that the first sentence of the Preamble to our Constitution contains an error. "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,..." Apparently perfect is an end-state and it is impossible and illogical that anything can be more perfect. It is either perfect or not perfect - that's it. There are no levels of perfection. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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No FB for you, Mr.!  |
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Alas, no FB, as you anticipated. Still a beautiful dime. =)
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 HumblePie me friend... |
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MS66 its a crap shoot anymore for the designation however imo that hit would exclude it, its just to much and too deep but they are so inconsistent with this I would never go by their assessment for it. for me, if was paying a FB premium I want all 3 bands split not just the center one.
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