Hey gang. I was going through some coins today and I noticed that I had a decent range of coins that were struck differently. I decided to photograph the bunch and post it for everyone to see the differences between a poorly struck walker and a fully struck piece... and the coins in between. I hope some folks find this useful when trying to determine how well their coins are struck. It's a good sized picture and you can zoom by clicking. Matt
Hey, first let me say very nice walkers and I enjoy threads that help me learn. Now, while i have your attention, a little off topic Any word on that walker that you picked up and sent in for grading?...not sure if it came back up and i missed the thread on it. One last thing: Really enjoy the podcast and was wondering when the next episode was, and also if there's a set schedule for new/upcoming episodes?
The 1934 S is at NGC and was entered into their system yesterday. The current turnaround is 48 hours on express orders so tomorrow or the next day I'll report the result. The podcast is done as the 3 of us get free time. We try to have an episode about every 2 weeks. We just recorded one this past Sunday that should be a good episode. We are including a new book review segment which will be usefull.
Well I'm rooting for you on the walker, hopefully it comes back with a nice grade. I'm sure the podcast is a tax on your time, but i catch myself looking every couple of days hoping for a new episode(if it were up to me I'd prefer a new episode 3x a week!) Looking forward to the next installment, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who appreciates all three of you taking the time to record it. Thanks!
With this series, many collectors associate the weaker strikes with high point wear. Thanks for posting, glad to see some examples of different years and mints.
Quite true. However, the thing that we must remember is that we cannot assume that every example of a given date/mint was weakly struck. If you do, what you end up doing is assuming that real high point wear was due to a weak strike and thus some AU coins end up being graded as MS when they should not be. And don't think for one minute that this doesn't happen. It happens a lot ! It is extremely important that collectors learn to differentiate high point wear from a weak strike so they can avoid doing this.
I'm not a Walker collector, but would this be an area of focus for determining strike on the reverse?
Not really. The eagle's left leg and breast are the best places to look. The left leg in your pic plainly shows that this coin had a weak strike.
