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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2103291, member: 112&quot;]Yes, but then PCGS does not use ANA standards, neither does NGC or any other TPG. It is the norm to find weakly struck coins that have been graded 65 to 68 by the TPGs. But if ANA standards are used, you will not find any above 64.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This has always been the case, even long before the TPGs, or market grading, even existed. In fact, by the earliest ANA Grading standards (1977) which were based on technical grading, a weakly struck coin could even be graded as MS70. Of course back then there were only 3 uncirculated grades, MS60, MS65, and MS70. No other MS grades even existed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact of quality of strike having nothing to do with the grade assigned a coin was one of the things done away with when the ANA created market grading. With market grading quality of strike matters, as it should.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, even with market grading (ANA standards) when an entire issue (a given date/mint combination) is known for having been weakly struck, then adjustments are made pertaining only to that specific issue. In other words that specific issue cannot be judged by or compared to other issues of the same series, but instead all by itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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