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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 191388, member: 112&quot;]Actually, for the &#039;42-S, it has to have a better than average strike to even hit 65. To hit 66, it has have better than a 65 does. This part of grading isn&#039;t something you will find in the individual listings in the grading guides. But you will find it in the introductory pages to a limited extent. To get to know and understand these intricasies and nuances of grading you have to read and study books written about the particular series. They will tell you which date/mint combinations are known to be weakly struck in certain areas of the design. After that, you learn by hands on experience. That&#039;s why so many people have such a hard time with grading MS coins - they don&#039;t know and understand these nuances.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes and no. As I said above, this is something that you have to go beyond the grading guides to learn. The &#039;42-S is only one example in the series that is known to be weakly struck in certain areas, there are others as well. But to determine what those examples are, yes it is based on a representative sample of the entire series. And it&#039;s not just Walkers, the same is true with any denomination and series. </p><p><br /></p><p>Like with Morgan dollars, the O mint coins are well known for being weakly struck. If you compared an 1880-S in MS65 to an 1880-O in MS65 - they&#039;d look like two vastly differently graded coins. You&#039;d swear the O coin could be no better than 62 or 63 at best. But you&#039;d be wrong because the quality of strike from each mint was vastly different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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