Signs of wear or weak strike?

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  1. Rheingold

    Rheingold Well-Known Member

    Need help from the two cent specialists.
    Got this two cent piece with obviously weak strike near cents.....I think the coin is in xf condition and I wonder about the obverse...who can help?
     

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  3. Rheingold

    Rheingold Well-Known Member

    Here is reverse....
     

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  4. Andy Kim

    Andy Kim Member

    This coin is in about good-very good condition.. Yeah, the coin really has a weak strike.
     
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  5. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank


    I will buy all of your coins with grades like this.


    VF-XF, weak strike, but:
    The reverse has verdigris. Someone will come along & tell you how to stop it frm growing.


    FYI: large motto
     
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  6. kanga

    kanga 65 Year Collector

    I see it as XF.
     
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  7. ldhair

    ldhair Clean Supporter

    I'm at VF or XF as well. Weak strike and maybe the die was filled a bit.
     
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  8. harris498

    harris498 Accumulator

    I agree with XF.
     
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  9. C-B-D

    C-B-D Well-Known Member

    Full XF, no doubt about it IMO.
     
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  10. Mainebill

    Mainebill Bethany Danielle

    I'm seeing it as vf -35 - xf 40. Very weak strike but not a lot of wear.
     
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  11. FredJB

    FredJB Well-Known Member

    Check the rims. If there are flat spots on the obv. or rev. but the rims are still sharp it is a weak strike. If the rims are rounded with wear it is not a weak strike.
     
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  12. Conder101

    Conder101 Numismatist

    I think the missing TS is due to grease filled dies. Considering the N and the wheat grains to either side are strong I don't believe a weak strike could be the reason.
     
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  13. ToughCOINS

    ToughCOINS Dealer Member Moderator

    Locations of weakness on the obverse and reverse agree with each other . . . elsewhere, the coin was fully struck. This was likely due to a localized thinning of the planchet before strike, perhaps the result of delamination.
     
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  14. 19Lyds

    19Lyds Member of the United States of Confusion

    I agree with Conder.
     
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  15. Rheingold

    Rheingold Well-Known Member

    Thanks a lot everybody....it's good to be here.:)
     
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