Owner Comments:
Mintage: 35.2 Million
Full Step Availability: 10%
Date/mm Information: Bowers claims that most mint state examples are brilliant, lustrous, and with good eye appeal.
Description:
A stunningly lustrous and remarkably clean coin with a hammered strike ta boot. Superlative in every facet of grading: surface preservation, luster, strike, and eye appeal. A mesmerizing example from a forlorn decade.
Comments:
This is a bold statement, but this coin is the highest quality nickel I have ever seen from the 1950s. The luster is so strong that it is almost unbelievable. Surfaces so clean that you need a loupe just to find one flaw. And a strike that makes you think there is no way it was minted in the fifties. The detail in Monticello is completely full, all windows and doors as well as the steps. Unfortunately, the coin missed the 6FS designation; NGC must have felt that a shallow scratch interrupts the 2nd to 4th steps in the very center. I disagree. I knew from the Teletrade photos this coin was a monster but when I saw it in hand, it almost knocked me off my chair. One of the finest coins in my entire collection.