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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1942995, member: 112&quot;]The ANA book doesn&#039;t specifically address that issue. What it does say is that there are certain date/mint combinations that are known for being weakly struck among various denominations and types. </p><p><br /></p><p>The issue of grading specific coins where a given date/mint is known to have been weakly struck, or the opposite of that, is usually only addressed in specialty books, books dedicated to that series or type only. The practice of making allowances for known weakly struck issues, or being more strict with known especially well struck issues, is one that has been accepted by the numismatic community as a whole since long before the TPGs, or even the first ANA grading book, existed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the issue of quality of strike, the ANA book specifically states several times that no coin should be graded higher than MS64 unless that coin is well struck. Not necessarily fully struck, but well struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>It further states and acknowledges that recently (and the book was published in 2005 - 6th edition) the TPGs had changed this practice and begun grading coins that were not well struck 65 and higher. But the ANA standards had not changed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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