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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mountain Man, post: 3879549, member: 94733&quot;]While your photos aren&#039;t that clear, it almost looks like I can see a D mint mark, but you may be able to clarify that in hand. It would be about a VG, weak strike, causing the hind leg to not clearly strike. In its condition, it would be hard to tell. In the &quot;Guide Book of Buffalo and Jefferson Nickels&quot; Bowers goes into detail about the strike quality and also covers the difficulty in adjusting the dies to fully strike so it would last longer. It seems that often the dies were given more space so they would last longer but created a &quot;weak&quot; strike. The devices closest to the rim often suffered the most.</p><p>Even when it appears to be a strong strike, those details can be weak due to the spacing of the dies.</p><p>Some examples</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024819[/ATTACH] </p><p>1935 D</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1024820[/ATTACH] </p><p>1929[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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