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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 304808, member: 112&quot;]The only explanation I could even begin to offer would be wear patterns or worn out dies. And like you, not knowing the coins that well or their normal characteristics for given dates, all I can do is use logic also. That being that if the high point is well struck - and since the high points are the last areas of a coin to fill when struck - then it is logical to assume that the coin was not weakly struck. At the same time I also realize that not all coins show a weak strike in the high points. Sometimes it is due not to a weak strike so much as it is to dies not being adjusted properly to one another - but for lack of another term we call that a weak strike as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said, I think it always much easier to determine if a coin was weakly struck when the coin in question is in the higher grades. It is quite difficult to judge a weak strike on coins that grade under XF and often VF.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line for me, I follow the standards and basic logic until someone who knows the strike charcateristics teaches me otherwise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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