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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheFinn, post: 2874437, member: 90102&quot;]If you have a coin with low details, but full luster, it isn&#039;t/can&#039;t be weakly struck as GDJMSP said because it isn&#039;t fully struck.&nbsp; Such a coin would have been struck with worn dies.&nbsp; A fully struck coin will have full luster.&nbsp; A weakly struck coin will have luster on the parts that actually touched the die.&nbsp; If the planchet did not strike part of the die, it isn&#039;t fully struck enough to move the metal, so the surface you see is what was on the raw planchet. After working in a mint, this is a very common occurrence and easy to see.&nbsp; The Canadians call coins that do not have luster on the high points &quot;Die Burn&quot;.&nbsp; You see it on a lot of George VI dollars and halves on his cheek bone.&nbsp; That is why they lowered the relief of QEII when they changed designs in 1953.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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