New Franklin GTG and designation if any

[fishfinder]

Holy bell lines! I'll post the slab later.

[physics-fan3.14]

Is that what I think it is?

[fishfinder]

Is that what I think it is?

 

I think you think right.

[Schatzy]

Are you trying to tease Jason!!

[Schatzy]

My guess is that is just missed PL

 

so

 

~~~~~~NGC~~~~~~~

Mint State 65 FBL Star

[cameron12x]

That's a beauty!

[L1ncolnF4n]

My guess is that is just missed PL

 

so

 

~~~~~~NGC~~~~~~~

Mint State 65 FBL Star

 

What he said

 

BUT!!!! I do see what looks like some spotting, that could keep it at 64, still obviously a FBL*, but I can't see that PL at least by those pictures, but pretty d%%% close.

[physics-fan3.14]

Based on those pics, I'm guessing its a gorgeous 65 FBL PL.

[fishfinder]

Physics-fan nailed it.Those die polish lines are a dead give away. Unfortunately Schatzy, that star designation would garner more registry points than the PL designation. The pictures could be better to show brilliance, they were the first out of a new camera and shot with diffused light to show detail. Here are the sellers pics. Can anyone give me the population?

[Schatzy]

Fish

 

MS PL 4 Total Graded

4 Graded at MS64

 

MS FBL PL 8 Total graded

6 Graded at MS65 and 2 Graded at MS66

 

MS FBL PL Star 1 Graded at MS65

 

 

[fishfinder]

Thank you Jaime!

[physics-fan3.14]

Fish - that Franklin is simply fantastic. If you don't mind, can I ask was that the one recently on Ebay, or the one Tomaska recently had for sale?

[fishfinder]

It was on e-bay last month.

[Coindude]

Dang, you posted to quick. I was going to guess 65fbl and PL!

[physics-fan3.14]

MS FBL PL Star 1 Graded at MS65

 

 

Tomaska had this coin for sale last year, and it was beyond incredible. The fields were deep watery mirrors, and the devices had a noticeable level of cameo. Of course, the price was beyond incredible also.

[cpm9ball]

MS FBL PL Star 1 Graded at MS65

 

 

Tomaska had this coin for sale last year, and it was beyond incredible. The fields were deep watery mirrors, and the devices had a noticeable level of cameo. Of course, the price was beyond incredible also.

 

You cheated! Insider trading!

 

Chris

[franklinlvr-migration]

Very nice PL! If you got this on Ebay it must have been the one Flykite had listed. I bought my '49-S PL from him too.

 

There's also one graded MS66FBL PL Star, I'm not sure why it's not showing in the pops.

 

These things are hard to photograph!

 

[fishfinder]

These things are hard to photograph!

 

You got that right. Flykite agreed to re-list it and I grabbed it.That's a very nice picture franklinlvr. I'll have to play around with some lighting and editing raw. It's hard to see why yours (Jason's too) didn't get FBL.

 

 

 

 

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[physics-fan3.14]

I'll post mine here, just so we can have a whole bunch of them in the same thread I have no idea why mine didn't get FBL either - everyone I showed it to at FUN agreed it should have FBL. I will probably send it in for designation review at some point - but since I have absolutely no plans to ever sell it, its not really that important.

 

As for photographing prooflikes - they are tricky little things. You have to treat them like proofs, but that doesn't convey the surfaces well. These prooflikes are characterized by heavy die polish, so certain lighting angles will make the coin look very weird.

 

[franklinlvr-migration]

These things are hard to photograph!

 

You got that right. Flykite agreed to re-list it and I grabbed it.That's a very nice picture franklinlvr. I'll have to play around with some lighting and editing raw. It's hard to see why yours (Jason's too) didn't get FBL.

 

 

 

 

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Mine has a very small flat spot to the left of the crack that prevents it from FBL. But I don't understand why Jason's coin didn't get the designation. I was the previous owner and the bell lines were all there in my opinion!

 

BTW, I used axiel lighting to photograph my PL. It worked much better than direct lighting which made it look black.