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Message:: [QUOTE="NorthKorea, post: 2553622, member: 29643"]At least a part of it has to do with design of the coin, in addition to the materials used. Morgans, due to the "hair" accounting for 50% of the obverse, will not show as many hits in the devices as an CuNi Ike ("Ikes" from this point forth reference the CuNi ones) would. Ikes, having about 25% "hair" on the obverse, would have about 50% more revealed surface for marks to show up on. This is added to the issues of harder planchets, which means tumbling would be less likely to remove planchet marks and more likely to introduce them. There's also a conspiracy-esque reason related to the pricing on the two. PCGS "type" pricing for Ikes jumps at MS67 and for Morgans jumps at MS65. MS66 Morgans may simply be scrutinized more than MS66 Ikes, since their relative rarity is MUCH higher. If you were to compare MS65 Morgans to MS66 Ikes, you might find more overall parallels in the grading, since the starting points are different. That all said, I'm not sure I even agree with the baseline assumption of more hits being on Ikes than Morgans. Again, I think it might be a design consideration, as many Morgan hits are in the busy hair, which might not show at all, as opposed to on the thin hair of Ike.[/QUOTE]