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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 564234, member: 68&quot;]The coin has light wear and is poorly struck.&nbsp; A buffalo nickel that looks like this would grade VF at best.&nbsp; But the services do allow for how coins are made and this one just comes fresh out of the dies looking worn so they graded it on the light wear rather than the lack of detail.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always been a proponent of just grading the strike and the wear.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many clad quarters from the early years are so poorly struck that there is no definition between the tops of som of the letters or numerals and the rim.&nbsp; If you use technical standards to grade these they pass from uncirculated straight to AG without going through any grades in between.&nbsp; The same happens to a BU buffalo nickel that was struck without a full hirn; it goes straight from Unc to VF without ever being an AU or XF.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is with the grading system.&nbsp; But this is what collectors demand; an easy way to look up the value of their coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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