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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 2211072, member: 1765&quot;]It is not fully struck.&nbsp; Very close, though.&nbsp; Both sides at 3:00 are weak, with no rim present, making me wonder if this was a planchet issue.&nbsp; Looking at a few other high-grade 13-S Ty. 1 makes me think this is typical, however.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the term &quot;sharply struck,&quot; while it&#039;s obvious what this is supposed to mean (all the detail is there and is sharp), it really doesn&#039;t make sense if you think about it.&nbsp; Sharpness of the design is a function of detail on the die as well as the fullness of strike.&nbsp; You can have a full strike from a die with poor detail, and the coin will have poor detail.&nbsp; Moreover, the reason for the poor detail can be either a die that has worn from use or a die that never had detail due to a worn hub upstream in the die manufacturing process.&nbsp; A fully struck 1968-D cent will never show any of the lines in Lincoln&#039;s hair due to a worn out master hub.&nbsp; A mushy 1921-S Morgan may have a full strike, but poor detail due to a heavily eroded die.&nbsp; Neither would ever be anything I&#039;d call &quot;sharply struck&quot; (or fully struck with sharp details).&nbsp; Likewise, I wouldn&#039;t call one that doesn&#039;t have full detail weakly struck unless it shows evidence beyond design weakness in the die as the reason for weak details on the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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