These Low pop Jefferson varieties deserve recognition.

There were no San Francisco minted coins that were produced in 1955, apparently thou, there were some Mintmark Dies that the Top Officials at the Mint did not want to scrap-out. So they sent all these Dies to the Denver Mint,stamping again.But this time with the Denver Die,creating alot of confusion to go with it.

There were at least (10) Different-Dies identified,however only (1) Die stood-out among all, it being the most prominent D/S variety,this was Labeled as the FS-501 Jefferson. They had to make (2) separate tables showing the populations of all these Variety Types.

The 2nd Table of Varities are of lesser defined dies,there were quite a few of them.

This was a great find for me being fortunate enough to own one of these 1955 Variety FS-501 Overmintmarked Nickels. After checking the Ngc Image Gallery,I have the only(FS-501)Var-type here at Ngc at MS65,the others on there,are not the FS-501,but lesser defined type 2 varieties.

The Top-2 Grading Services only graded/certified a Total of (5) in MS65 Grade where (0) are graded any higher than that,no fullsteps yet either.I have more description/photos in my NGC Registry for your enjoyment as well.

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