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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3970424, member: 112&quot;]When it comes to quality of strike the type of press being used has little to do with it. And if ya just stop and think for a minute that becomes pretty obvious.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, a coin may be 6 or 7 hundred years old and yet have an absolutely superb quality of strike - and there wasn&#039;t even a press involved, it was a guy with a hammer. Or take some of the O mint Morgans, well known for being weakly struck - and yet the O mint was using the same presses the other mints were. And even beyond that, some of the O mint coins are known for having a very high quality of strike - from the exact same press that produced the weakly struck coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>See what I mean ? The press doesn&#039;t have anything to do with it. And the dies don&#039;t much matter either when it comes right down to it. </p><p><br /></p><p>The things that matter when it comes to determining whether a coin will be well struck or poorly struck are simple adjustments. Things like die spacing, die alignment, and pressure settings - those are the things that determine quality of strike. Get all of those just right and the coin will have a fabulous strike. But get just one of them wrong, and the strike will be of low quality. And this is true regardless of the press you use.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the reason I say the dies don&#039;t matter is because I don&#039;t care if you&#039;ve got the highest quality of die that has ever been made - get the pressure setting too low and the quality of strike is gonna suck. Same with die spacing and alignment if ya get them wrong.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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