Fresh From Grading

[Danye West]

I had 3 Franklins and 2 Washingtons, all toned. Sent 'em to PCGS and here's how they came back. I'm needless to say, especially in the case of the 53-D, very happy.

 

Franklins

1953-D.....me: QT or 65FBL.......PCGS: 65FBL

1955.........me: 64+FBL...............PCGS: 65FBL

1955.........me: 65FBL.................PCGS: 65FBL

 

Washingtons

1955........me: 65........................PCGS MS66

1955........me: 66........................PCGS MS65

[physics-fan3.14]

This thread is useless without pics.

 

You've been here long enough to know that.

[Danye West]

working on it.

[123cents]

Nice grades. Congrats!

 

[rrantique]

Nice grades. Congrats!

+1 (thumbs u

[coinman1794]

I'm interested to see what was questionable about the 53-D. This date is known to come with some wacky mint set colors.

[Danye West]

Wacky. The thick blue/yellow is downright weird, but pretty.

[Hard Times]

I had 3 Franklins and 2 Washingtons, all toned. Sent 'em to PCGS and here's how they came back. I'm needless to say, especially in the case of the 53-D, very happy.

 

Franklins

1953-D.....me: QT or 65FBL.......PCGS: 65FBL

1955.........me: 64+FBL...............PCGS: 65FBL

1955.........me: 65FBL.................PCGS: 65FBL

 

Washingtons

1955........me: 65........................PCGS MS66

1955........me: 66........................PCGS MS65

 

Out of curiousity, why didn't you send them to NGC, our hosts? Has PCGS relaxed its grading standards thereby insuring high grades? Or another reason?

 

Best, HT

[Raisethis2]

I'm normally a fan of color. If that's an accurate depiction, I'm not nuts about it.

 

As far as which company gets to do the grading, I've kind of settled upon a system. NGC gets coins with multi-color, bands or bell lines, circulated coins and proofs.

 

PCGS gets the Morgans and Walkers. NGC has recently burned that bridge.

[brg5658]

I had 3 Franklins and 2 Washingtons, all toned. Sent 'em to PCGS and here's how they came back. I'm needless to say, especially in the case of the 53-D, very happy.

 

Franklins

1953-D.....me: QT or 65FBL.......PCGS: 65FBL

1955.........me: 64+FBL...............PCGS: 65FBL

1955.........me: 65FBL.................PCGS: 65FBL

 

Washingtons

1955........me: 65........................PCGS MS66

1955........me: 66........................PCGS MS65

 

Out of curiousity, why didn't you send them to NGC, our hosts? Has PCGS relaxed its grading standards thereby insuring high grades? Or another reason?

 

Best, HT

 

Well, as you know, PCGS FBL designation is very lax compared to NGC (the definition used differs at PCGS as it requires only the bottom set of bell lines to be complete -- NGC requires both sets of bell lines to be complete). To purist collectors of Franklin FBL coins, most prefer NGC's designation.

[coinman1794]

The color looks very natural to me for a 53-D.