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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 469433, member: 112&quot;]As has been noted before, both wear and a weak strike can appear as a darker color. However, there is a difference between those darker colors. The color of an area weakly struck is lighter than the color of an area that has wear. With experience you can recognize this difference readily.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is also another way for those without that experience to readily tell a weakly struck coin from one with wear. Instead of looking at the high points on the devices - look at the fields. There is no such thing as a coin that shows a weak strike in the fields. So if a coin shows a darker area in the fields than the surrounding surface you can count on it that it is wear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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