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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1411087, member: 112&quot;]When it comes to quality of strike the TPGs are far more forgiving than the ANA grading standards are. But even the ANA grading standards make allowances for coins where the entire mintage is known for being weakly struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, according to ANA standards, if a given coin is known for being well struck as a general rule, then yes the grade is impacted in a negative way if a given example is weakly struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I am trying to tell you is that the level of relief on the master die has nothing to do with it in regard to quality of strike of the coins produced. That is because the working die may well have exactly the same level of relief that the master die has, but the coins can still be weakly struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are several possible reasons that can happen. The coin press may have the pressure set too low, or the dies may be misaligned in the horizontal plane or the vertical plane or even both planes, or the planchet may be too thin, or the dies may be incorrectly spaced from each other. </p><p><br /></p><p>All of these reasons are why, when it comes to grading, that the quality of strike for any given coin to receive a high grade is determined not by the level of relief on the die, but rather what the level of relief (quality of strike) is on the majority of the coins from a given mintage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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