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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 7722944, member: 5233"]I used to think this way but once I studied it more...I found it doesn't make sense. Lets forget about Morgan's...lets talk about a totally different series but it's not just a Morgan issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1922-D Lincoln Cent is notorious for bad strikes due to the extreme age of the dies used. They are mushy. Not one single coin from that production was made to the same quality or strike as say...a 1912 Lincoln. They are COMPLETELY different coins with COMPLETELY different characteristics. You can't fairly evaluate them the same way.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same is true for the Morgan Dollar series. A few dates standout and are uniquely nice (1880-S is one of them). A few dates standout as being uniquely bad (1892-O comes to mind) and the majority are somewhere in between. With the outliers...you have to treat them special because they are different coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 7722944, member: 5233"]I used to think this way but once I studied it more...I found it doesn't make sense. Lets forget about Morgan's...lets talk about a totally different series but it's not just a Morgan issue. The 1922-D Lincoln Cent is notorious for bad strikes due to the extreme age of the dies used. They are mushy. Not one single coin from that production was made to the same quality or strike as say...a 1912 Lincoln. They are COMPLETELY different coins with COMPLETELY different characteristics. You can't fairly evaluate them the same way. The same is true for the Morgan Dollar series. A few dates standout and are uniquely nice (1880-S is one of them). A few dates standout as being uniquely bad (1892-O comes to mind) and the majority are somewhere in between. With the outliers...you have to treat them special because they are different coins.[/QUOTE]
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