Kerry's Franklin Set #1
1960-D


Obverse
Enlarge  
Reverse
Enlarge  

Coin Details

  

Set Details
Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: HALF DOLLARS - FRANKLIN
Item Description: 50C 1960 D
Grade: PCGS MS 65 FBL
Owner: W.K.F.
 
Winning Set: Kerry's Franklin Set #1
Date Added: 7/11/2010
Research: Currently not available

Owner's Description

A simply gorgeous 65 with light pink toning on the obverse and a near white reverse. This coin is one that has been a long time coming but finally found on an evening Teletrade Auction, 7-11-10. The price was right and even took advantage of two $50 coupons from Teletrade. This made the cost to me on this coin "dirt cheap". Wow, what a coin, and at a great price to boot. I would have rather had an NGC example to fill this slot but PCGS is very strong also. I am very happy to have yet one more hole filled in the quest to have a complete set of Franklin halves in MS-65-66, with Full Bell Lines. At the 1989 highs, this coin was bringing $3000 in the gem MS-65 "NON-FBL" grade. This is by far a much nicer coin and one that has the "coveted" FBL designation. I'm not sure of the pops at PCGS but NGC has seen a total of "only" 431 coins graded in "ALL" grades with full bell lines. At ms-65 FBL only 70 coins exist. This is the "highest" grade to date with NGC never having seen a MS-66 FBL, much less a MS-67. Again like most coins in this series, when you get to this high of a grade, especially when talking about "this" date and mint, you are holding a very rare coin period. That's "IF" of course you are holding one. I am trying to obtain all MS-66 FBL specimens for this set, but for this year I may have to settle for this 65-fbl as there are none graded higher. I feel very lucky to have obtained such a coin. It is amazing to me that from a total mintage of 18,215,812, there are "zero" coins graded higher than 65-fbl. The main reason for this is that when the "master die" was reworked for the year starting 1960, the detail was omitted in several areas, the main one being the reverse "bell lines". Only coins struck from the first few strikes of the new working die cut from the master die, would "strike up" in this area. There are just a very few original rolls left, to "cherry pick" through, and if you did, it's highly un-likely it would yield even a single gem. Much less one that exhibited full bell lines. This is a very rare coin indeed. I am waiting on a new filter for my camera and as soon as can be arranged, I will have photos of this coin to share with all.

To follow or send a message to this user,
please log in