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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3249397, member: 19165&quot;]I&#039;m not seeing any wear on this coin. I see the result of a poor strike. When the strike is not full, the hair details and the breast feather details don&#039;t always strike up fully. What that leaves is a &#039;shiny&#039; spot where the metal didn&#039;t fill the die. On these coins, the flat/dull areas in the hair, especially over the ear, are evidence of the strike weakness. I don&#039;t usually see Morgans with strike weakness (also called &quot;high point pitting&quot;) on the cheek, but that appears to be what&#039;s happened here. This coin has an unusually bad strike, which limits the grade. </p><p><br /></p><p>If there were actual wear, I would expect to see some evidence in the fields. I don&#039;t see wear in the fields. I see a bunch of contact marks, and I see weak luster.... but I don&#039;t see any real wear. </p><p><br /></p><p>When you deal with grades like MS-62, it gets tricky. There&#039;s a reason it is graded so low. I&#039;ve no idea why such a common date was submitted with such a low grade, but I think the grade is fair.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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