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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 5003092, member: 24314"]Beefer518, posted: "I also thought it would have been a whole lots of grease, but (based on the image provided) I still would lean towards grease (gunk) filled die. Why would I still think that? Because from what I know/understand, when a planchet isn't fully or well struck there are imperfections on the planchet that don't get 'struck out', and are clearly visible on the coin. Here is one of my (somewhat) weakly struck Booker T Washington's that shows the planchet imperfections quite clearly. This is graded MS66 (NGC): [ATTACH=full]1200643[/ATTACH] Now if we look closer at the high points of the coin (most of BTW's face), we see all the raw, pre-strike  planchet imperfections quite clearly. They aren't from coins hitting each other, but from unstruck planchets co-mingling on their way to becoming coins. Not the essentially non-existent marks in the lower points and fields like you would see in a circulated coin, or a coin suffering bag hits: [ATTACH=full]1200657[/ATTACH] So wouldn't it stand to reason that a weakly struck coin, that is still in uncirculated (MS) condition would also show these pre-strike flaws of the planchet?" IMO, YOUR COIN IS NOT WEAKLY STRUCK.  It is a normal strike and most of these com this way!  However, the point you are making about original planchet surface imperfections (OPSI) is correct, they often remain on the high points of coins- especially in several series.[/QUOTE]