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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1786303, member: 112&quot;]With MS coins, and even with some AU and XF coins, it may be possible to attribute a weak strike being the reason for lack of detail in a particular area of the coin. But typically when a coin is weakly struck both the obv and the rev are equally affected due to the nature of striking. In other words, if strike is weak on one side then it must by necessity be weak on the other side too because you cannot have more pressure on one side than you do the other.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A coin being struck with a worn die is a completely different thing. For if one die is worn and the other die is not, then the side with the worn die is going suffer lack of detail while the other side does not. Again, because the pressure on both sides is equal when the coin is struck.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Uneven wear patterns, though maybe not common, do happen. So you can have a circulated coin with more wear on one side than there is on the other. And in most cases once wear has reached the XF point it is going to be very difficult if not impossible to tell if a coin was weakly struck. That is because once a coin has that much wear then the indicators of a weak strike are worn away because a weak strike typically only affects the high points.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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