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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gronnh20, post: 3029788, member: 73224&quot;]Both of those coins are showing die wear/fatigue.&nbsp; But, to your question, a lot of it depends on the year the nickel was struck.&nbsp; Not only does the mint try to get more out of their working dies, that also holds true to their master dies.&nbsp; There are years the master die was transferring mushy details because it was overused.&nbsp; Other years the mint tried to get more out of the working dies, so they open the gap up a small fraction between die faces.&nbsp; AKA, weak strike. Then those years the mint makes so many nickels they just abuse the dies until they look like a mushroom.&nbsp; Well, not that exaggerated but they overuse the dies.&nbsp; So, when they do that there are more coins with less than full details between new die changes.</p><p><br /></p><p>To get full steps it needs to be a new die pair and the proper spacing between dies.&nbsp; Or hit that coin twice to bring out the details.&nbsp; Trying to complete a Jefferson set with all full step coins would be a very major undertaking.&nbsp; And take lots of money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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