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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 451559, member: 112&quot;]Here&#039;s the obv Lehigh.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes Mike, it is a &#039;97-P matte.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the other Mike, I am not trying to penalize anything. I am making a point for those that say that allowances should not be made based on date and mint in regard to grading. This coin exemplifies the fact that allowances <u>must</u> be made. Because you are right about 99% of the coins not having a strike like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>However they do exist. Some years ago the discussion of full steps came up on the NGC forum. It was the usual discussion with some asking why full steps and others answering because that is the area that it is hardest to find with a full strike. I argued that point, saying that finding a coin with the windows fully struck was much harder than finding one with 6 steps. Someone then asked me how I knew this to be true when nobody else seemed to know it. The attitude was that I couldn&#039;t possibly be right because the experts and books said otherwise. My answer was that yeah they were right, I didn&#039;t know anything about nickels and was just making it all up <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> That seemed to satisfy them and the thread ended.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I dare ya, double dare ya, to find me 10 such coins. They are out there, but nobody looks for them. They are too busy looking for full steps to notice the windows. And because of that, the coins that actually do have the best strike are ignored.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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