Doug's - Guess the grade

Over the years I purchased quite a few coins from Heritage Mark, even sold quite a few through them. And just because I no longer collect coins that doesn't mean that I don't see them in hand. Even after I stopped collecting I still attended coin shows, both small and major, I still went to coin shops, and I still examine coins for others.

As for the soft strike issue, yes the coin was weakly struck. They were all weakly struck. The point is, that eagle is not smooth because it was weakly struck, it is smooth because of wear.

All one needs to do to recognize this is to look at MS examples. MS examples show you without a doubt what specific areas of detail will be lacking due to the weak strike.

As I have said before, people use weak strike as an excuse for over-grading a coin. Well you can do that with high grade examples, but you can't do it with low grade examples.

As for the article on the NGC site about weak strike - did you mean this part ? You might want to pay attention to the last sentence.

Another peculiarity of these early coins that's noticeable on both mint state and circulated examples is that they were often incompletely or irregularly struck. Portions of the design may be missing, even on high grade coins, as the result of a less than full strike or due to some deficiency in the die itself. Weakness of strike should not affect the grade of a mint state coin unless it is quite severe, but worn coins are more likely to be evaluated by the amount of detail visible.

 

spock no one could ever understand that the two questions above is what were you were asking based on your previous comments.

question 1 answer - the 64

question 2 answer - I'm not trying to say anything other than to explain why the 64 is better than the 62

 

Apparently you are missing something. Go back and read it.

I asked Mike which coin he thought was nicer - before I told what the grades were. Then we discussed it. It's all there spock, everybody else seemed to understand it.