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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 734831, member: 13650&quot;]Yes, it is the Bowers book.&nbsp; I just got it yesterday.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;He puts great emphasis on strike in other books too.&nbsp; He&#039;s amazed how little attention people pay to the the details on different coins within the same grade.&nbsp;&nbsp; He believes there should be more details grades like FS and FT used on more issues of coins to designate the premium ones.&nbsp; But most people don&#039;t pay attention.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The book is exactly what I was looking for.&nbsp; The detailed info on each specific coin should prove to be helpful in putting the rest of my set together.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Another interesting tid bit from it was that he says the lower denomination coins (non-precious metal) were not given as much care in the minting process.&nbsp; &nbsp; He said if time was taken and things calibrated and checked properly, that every nickel should have come out with razor sharp details.&nbsp;&nbsp; But many years, lazy press operators would purposely leave the dies too far apart so that a slightly over-sized planchet would strike up properly without damaging the die.&nbsp;&nbsp; This set up would still work for making all of them, but this resulted in the properly sized planchets receiving weak strikes, while the over-sized ones were the only ones that would strike up fully.&nbsp; &nbsp; Amazing stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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