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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dannic113, post: 1345951, member: 35203&quot;]Any mint from any year can have poor or weak strikes of coins. After all there have to be coins that are struck toward the end of the die&#039;s life and thus a worse strike. In fact more so because in those days die&#039;s weren&#039;t retired as often as today. Look how many were over dated, over mint marked, used to the point of competely breaking to save money and time. </p><p>In my opinion however the reason why the CC and S mints seemed to consistantly have better strikes was that they were newer and thus the equipment was also newer. Second is the fact that both mints were primarily gold (s) and silver (CC) dollar mints due to the gold (sutter mill in california) and silver (comstock lode in nevada) rushes respectively. So these mints could take their time with production in comparison to new orleans who made many other denominations and especially to Philladelphia which made every demonination at that time.&nbsp; </p><p>Philly mint inception-1792, N.O.-1838 (along with C charlotte,NC and D Dahlonega,GA), SanFran mint-1852, Denver mint-1862 (used only as an essay office) CC mint-1863[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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