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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2272928, member: 1892&quot;]You can expect that upper left quadrant of a Lincoln reverse to sometimes appear weak. It&#039;s opposite Lincoln&#039;s shoulder on the obverse, a place where a disproportionate amount of extra planchet metal from elsewhere needs to migrate to fill in the device. In some cases, especially when strike pressure is reduced, the face opposite the shoulder doesn&#039;t fill well as a result.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the folks at Denver in 1922 knew they had to force a small number of dies to strike a massive number of coins; one can reasonably expect they backed off the pressure as much as possible to get maximum die life. It&#039;s one of the reasons (along with sheer die wear) why 1922-D&#039;s are so weakly struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the LI of LIBERTY is one of the first places where wear and pressure weaken a strike, so that feature is explained to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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