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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 7582335, member: 101855&quot;]If you want to discuss strike issues, here is a well-known example. For those you know the Classic Head $2.50 series well I apologize because this one is well-known to the specialists.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1306665[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought this 1836 Classic Head $2.50 gold from the late Catherine Bullowa in 1971. She graded it AU, but at the time I bought the piece she commented that &quot;It might Uncirculated, I&#039;m not sure.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Many years later I had PCGS grade it. They called it an MS-62. I agree with them, especially when I see some of what they are calling MS-62 these days. The is softly struck in the center of the obverse primarily because the die is broken. If you look to the left of the sixth star, you will see a raised line, which is a die break. The crack runs down into the left of the &quot;L&quot; in &quot;LIBERTY&quot; and into the hair. It disappears there probably because the metal could not flow that high when the coin was struck. There is also some weakness on the left side of shield on the reverse. That area is opposite the weak spot in the hair.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other issue was with the dies that were used to strike these coins. Although the 1834 to 1839 quarter eagles are called &quot;Classic Heads,&quot; there are many different takes on Ms. Liberty within the series. This 1834 coin has the Classic Head, but it&#039;s not the exact same head. The problem was William Kneass and Christian Gobrecht, who succeeded him, could not seem to get this design right so that it struck up well. They kept tinkering with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1306667[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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