I haven't seen too many ANACS small white holder Jeffs with an MS67 grade ...

So you want to cause a seismic shift in the numismatic universe? Create a Registry weighting scale that gives an NGG Jefferson slab a -1 point for grade (relative to the PCGS weight) and a PCGS Jefferson slab a -1 point for FS (relative to the NGC weight). Oh right, there is no formal, consistent, thought-out process for assigning Registry weights. And we're talking Jefferson nickels here, so in all likelihood no one would notice. Never mind.

I have also opined in the past that NGC is much stricter than PCGS when awarding the Full Steps designation for the 74 coins in the 1938-1964 Jefferson Nickel series. The graph below shows that for 73/74 of the coins, on a percentage basis, NGC is stricter on awarding the Full Step designation than PCGS (the outlier is the 1964-P, with PCGS at 12%, NGC at 12.4%). On a numbers basis, NGC is also stricter on 73/74 of the coins (the outlier is the 1950-D, with 3,799 NGC FS coins and 2,947 PCGS FS coins). I personally don't believe, "NGC is stricter than PCGS on Full Steps" is an anecdote, it just is.

I have opined a couple of times that PCGS is much stricter than NGC when it comes to handing out MS67 grades. The graph below shows that for EVERY coin in the 74 coin 1938-1964 Jefferson nickel series, PCGS has fewer MS67 coins than NGC. The "by percentage" graph shows the same result - PCGS is stricter for all 74 coins. There are 380,000+ coins that make up this data - my personal belief is that the NGC = PCGS -1 grade formula is no longer an anecdote, it just is.

An interesting graph showing 1938-1964 Jefferson Nickels graded, in all grades, by PCGS and NGC. Some interesting observations: - the 1952 P is indeed Mr. Irrelevant with its low number of coins slabbed. - the 1939-S R40 and the 1939-P R38 are scarcer than most folks think - the 1943-D is the most popular slabbed 38-64 Jefferson by a large margin - the 1950-D is not really that rare (note, to make the PCGS and NGC numbers align, the 1939 NGC graded coins were reallocated as follows: P, 10/90% to R38/R40; D, 50% to each reverse, and S, 90/10% to R38/R40 ) FYI.

A new, "I really don't need another" purchase. But I like them ...

To the Principals of MC. Can you please add the 1939 P, D & S R40 Jefferson Nickels to the Basic Sets? They are not varieties. They are design changes within the same year, much like the 1909 Lincoln, 1913 Buffalo and 1917 SLQ. MyCollect and PCGS include both designs in Lincoln, Buffalo and SLQ Basic Sets, but both treat the R40 design as a variety. The "problem" of the unattributed reverse on a slab insert is not fixed by making these coins a variety; e.g. - if I have a 1939-S R40 in an old PCGS holder, and it is undesignated, the cert number will come back as an R38. Side note: One of the peculiarities of MyCollect is that a post that can legitimately be placed in more than one Group. For example, this post could be posted to the US Coin Sets Group. However, with Jefferson Nickels living low on the numismatic totem pole, I think it will get more discussion here. 😆 😆 Now THAT is funny.

So why do we think the 1942-D Jeff commands a premium? Of the 71 1938-1964 coins, it only has the 12th lowest mintage. Coin Facts suggests that [possibly] it's due to the lack of coins in circulation during the War. This seems a stretch to me, as there were plenty of silver Jeffs. If money were tight, and coins didn't circulate, why isn't the 43-D a pricey coin (it ranks 13th) as well? With nearly 3,000 coins submitted to PCGS alone, the 42-D hardly seems scarce. How do these things get started? Or is it really scarce and valuable? Thoughts?

I ran across these today. I forgot I even had them, then sold them, way back when. I've already opined about NGC-67 Jeffs generally being equal to PCGS-66 Jeffs, but it would be kind of cool to still have them.

Had a 40-S with a nice die chip on the reverse laying around - it seemed as good a subject as any. Why? Because, the departure of my iPhone 13 calls for celebration. The iPhone 13 ProMax camera is so much better/easier.

I went back and looked. I tried to cross 22 NGC-67 non full step Jefferson Nickels about 10 years ago. 2 crossed. 19 came back PCGS-66. 1 came back PCGS-65. 3 came back Full Steps. You can only tilt at windmills so long, so I basically gave up. How is the NGC - PCGS crossover market (if there is one) these days?

The best I have of probably the toughest date in the Jefferson 38-64 series. Very uncharacteristic luster for a 58-P in my opinion.

Who in the heck posts a 1959 Jefferson Nickel?

The ultra-rare and elusive 1955-P ACG-67 ... 😆 😆 😆

Old PCGS Jefferson Registry Set weightings, before one of the greatest numismatic atrocities of all time (okay, a little dramatic) - when some brainiac at PCGS decided to give ALL of the Jefferson nickels a weighting of 1.