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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;6StepStucky, post: 495115, member: 16664&quot;]<font face="Calibri"><font size="3">I understand a little of what you are trying to do but here is one little problem I have with it.&nbsp; Somewhere along the way, someone has to clean the dies for a better looking coin.&nbsp; Or someone has a winning design with lots of depth.&nbsp; And because of the if the coin isn’t a Full Strike and the high points are not in full detail it should be reduced in grade because of this fact.&nbsp; Now let’s take Lehigh96’s MS68FS 1943P Jefferson nickel.&nbsp; Here you will notice the ponytail’s tie doesn’t have much detail.&nbsp; I am using this coin because Lehigh96 also has a 1944 Jefferson where the ponytail tie back has much more detail but yet it is graded lower.&nbsp; I believe mint state as defined is how the coin left the mint and unless every die was laser/machine cut and cleaned not one will be the same verses the dies that were hand engraved and cleaned.&nbsp; Maybe your idea will work on future coins provided the mint does something to give each coin the same opportunity. </font></font></p><p><font face="Calibri"><font size="3">But that’s the beauty of collecting coins.&nbsp; Not everyone has the same strike depth.&nbsp; Collectors complained how strikes were weak and the fixed the problem.&nbsp; The problem now is that there are only the marks on a coin to separate the different grades. Since the dies were fixed on the Jefferson nickel nearly every new strike is a full step coin; Takes the fun out of searching and collecting.&nbsp; Now everybody can get a 6 step nickel where before it was through knowledge and time searching you were able to get one.&nbsp; I could have used other coins that have for example Full Bell Lines, or Full Bands, or Full Head and so on.&nbsp; I used the nickel because everyone can look now and see the two distinct strike differences without taking away from the luster or grade of a coin.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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