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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2826744, member: 112&quot;]While that could be true it is not necessarily always true. Wear can occur anywhere on a coin and often does. Even the fields, which are the lowest point on any coin, can be subjected to wear while there is no wear anyplace else on the coin. Same thing is true of the high points, wear can be on this high point and not on another.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes it is true that a weakly struck area will not have luster. For luster to be present the metal of the planchet must come into contact with the die for luster is created by the metal flowing across the surface of the die. But as I said above, wear can be differentiated from a weak strike. Color is one of the indicators, the color of the metal in a weakly struck area is darker than the areas that have luster. But the color from wear is even darker than that. Often you can even see wear in a weakly struck area. Then there is the texture of the metal itself. In a weakly struck area the metal will be somewhat bumpy, lumpy looking. But when wear is present it will be smooth and flat. </p><p><br /></p><p>In regard to the ear itself specifically on the the coin I called a 58. Do you see the hair curl that is directly behind the ear ? That hair curl has luster on it. And that hair curl is also higher than the ear itself. So, that means what we see on the ear could absolutely not be due to a weak strike, because if it was the hair curl behind which is even higher than the ear would show the same thing. A higher point cannot be filled to the point that it shows luster while at the same time a lower point directly adjacent to it is not filled and has no luster. Thus what we see on the ear can only be due to wear on that point.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you&#039;re gonna ask how that happen ? How can a higher point directly adjacent to a lower point not get wear on it while the lower point does get wear on it ? It&#039;s actually pretty easy for that happen. Something, some object of some kind, came into contact with the lower point and created the wear but did not come into contact with the adjoining higher point.</p><p><br /></p><p>And for those who say that can&#039;t happen, you&#039;re wrong. You think it can&#039;t happen because you are visualizing a flat surface coming into contact with the coin. And yes, IF it was a flat surface that came into contact with the coin - it could not happen. But what if it wasn&#039;t a flat surface ? What if it was the curved surface of another coin, what if it was small object of any kind, what if it was a portion of raised surface on any other object ? There are a thousand ways that wear can occur anywhere on a coin, and not on adjoining higher points.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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