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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1662565, member: 112&quot;]Bedford - </p><p><br /></p><p>I readily agree that the half is very weakly struck. But I don&#039;t agree that everything on that coin is a result of that weak strike. And there are several indicators that it isn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>Blow the picture up to full size and look at the date area first, right above the 1 and the 9. You can see where the high point there has been scraped off, and scraped in a vertical direction going N to S. And just above the knee of the left leg you can see a particularly deep gouge also running N to S, there is another smaller mark directly on the knee, and the color of the metal in those gouges is bright enough to indicate that the gouges occurred well after the coin was struck. Then you have more small scratches on the head, also running N to S and in line with the other 2 areas. There are several more marks in line all the way up the body from bottom to top. These indicate to me that something happened to that coin long after it was struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the argument can be made that some of those marks are left over planchet marks, and I&#039;d readily agree with that. But I would not agree that all of them are left over planchet marks for the reasons I have noted above, primarily differences in metal color, the fact they are all in line with one another, and their seemingly equal severity. Look at the differences in color of the smaller, less prominent marks elsewhere on the coin as compared to the ones I have noted. The smaller marks are much darker in color indicating they have been there longer.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is with coins like this that I think the TPGs, and many of us, will reach out and grab the excuse that because some of those marks can be left over planchet marks resulting from the weak strike, that all of them are. But it is my opinion that this is not so for the reasons I have given.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who&#039;s right ? Well obviously I think I am. Others may and probably will disagree. But in the interest of education I think it is more than worthwhile for me to post my comments.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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