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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 4995260, member: 15309&quot;]Ok, well I would first like to say that I am not used to looking at coins using night vision goggles, but hey, everyone else has to use them also, so lets go.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems to me that we can eliminate both circulation wear and weak strike.&nbsp; With circulation wear, the hair grooves, which are completely gone on this coin, are usually still partially visible when the date is unreadable.&nbsp; The date on this coin is sharp and appears like a mint state date would look.</p><p><br /></p><p>With weak strike, a strike bad enough to lose the hair grooves would never impart such a decent strike of the feathers which are usually one of the weakest struck elements of the obverse.&nbsp; In fact, I&#039;m not sure it is even possible to have a strike so weak that the hair grooves are completely gone.</p><p><br /></p><p>That leaves a worn die or struck through grease.&nbsp; This is where the night vision photo is problematic.&nbsp; I can&#039;t tell from those photos if there are grainy areas or orange peel effect that are the tell tale signs of tired dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>That leaves struck through grease that is successful at eliminating entire areas of details on a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>My overall opinion is that this coin does not suffer one of the 4 possible scenarios, but 3 of the four.&nbsp; The coin is uncirculated, but is very weakly struck, with tired dies, and struck through grease at the center of the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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