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<p>[QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 779588, member: 16510"]<b>If you look a little closer at the Satin Finish coins they are really not struck as w</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p>If you look a little closer at the Satin Finish coins they are really not struck as well, not nearly as well as coins struck for circulation and no, you are not on my radar today at all.</p><p>Just take a look at the SMS modern coins then get a nice BU circulated coin, the strike are never as good or sharp - that has been one of my problems with them from the start. The strikes on the satin finish coins alway seems to be washed out and rounded - the fields are nice sometimes but the striking pressure is not what it could have been - I have not found an answer to this yet???</p><p>My suspicion is they over frosted (the dies) and to protect it lowered the tonage, but that is just a guess???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 779588, member: 16510"][b]If you look a little closer at the Satin Finish coins they are really not struck as w[/b] If you look a little closer at the Satin Finish coins they are really not struck as well, not nearly as well as coins struck for circulation and no, you are not on my radar today at all. Just take a look at the SMS modern coins then get a nice BU circulated coin, the strike are never as good or sharp - that has been one of my problems with them from the start. The strikes on the satin finish coins alway seems to be washed out and rounded - the fields are nice sometimes but the striking pressure is not what it could have been - I have not found an answer to this yet??? My suspicion is they over frosted (the dies) and to protect it lowered the tonage, but that is just a guess???[/QUOTE]
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