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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The_Cave_Troll, post: 141803, member: 1674&quot;]That picture guarantees that the mark is POST-striking damage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an example of what the weakness he was talking about looks like:</p><p><br /></p><p>This the reverse of a 1865 3 cent nickel that was struck from a severely defective reverse die.&nbsp; The huge &quot;unstruck/broken&quot; looking section on the rim from 9:00 to 10:30 is a big die cud where the reverse die was completely broken and it failed to strike the coin with any pressure there.&nbsp; </p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/jsmexico/100_3834.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This caused a weakness on the obverse opposite of the die cud (from 7:30 to 9:00).&nbsp; This weakness is seen as a slight rounding of the rim and of a nearly complete lack of dentils (the little tick-marks around the rim) in the affected area.</p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/jsmexico/100_3832.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If your coin&#039;s planchet had been damaged pre-strike then the lack of enough metal in that area of the coin would have meant that opposite the damage there wouldn&#039;t have been enough pressure to strike the rim and lettering in that area fully, but since yours shows full detail in the area, it is concluded that the damage must have occurred after the coin was struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this helps you understand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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