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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 3522823, member: 77413&quot;][ATTACH=full]935446[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually there are quite a few interesting things going on with the steps and the field under the steps.</p><p><br /></p><p>Above, I have a blank planchet showing just how banged up they are even before striking. Below, more detail about the obverse and reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]935447[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><ol> <li>In the fields you see marks where the planchet was not smoothed completely during the strike.</li> <li>Imagine flipping the obverse image over. This would show that the area where the steps are weak is the same area where a lot of metal must flow up into the jaw. Quite simply, the steps just didn&#039;t get enough metal to be fully formed.</li> <li>You can see that there are more marks from contact after striking. On some, it is easy to see a curvature where the rim of another coin banged into it. These have sharp contours and are shiny.</li> <li>You can also see faint bright lines in the fields from die polishing. You can tell they are scratches in the die, and raised lines on the coin, by the way the light catches them.</li> </ol><p>Maybe a bit higher pressure during striking would have flattened out some of the planchet marks and would have forced more metal into the steps. Generally these issues don&#039;t account for much of the grade, but in this case I would be surprised if the grade went over MS66 RD.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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