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<p>[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 2571402, member: 5233"]I went back and looked at some of my resources and the information I used when I first wrote that article. The only reference that I have that goes into great detail about the 1904-O strike is <i>Comprehensive Guide and Encyclopedia of Morgan and Peace Dollars </i>by Leroy Van Allen and George Mallis. This book described the strike of the 1904-O as "usually slightly weak" but it does make mention of fully struck examples and flat struck examples being available because of the higher mintage figure.</p><p><br /></p><p>This and my own searching of online examples through HA and my own personal experience with the series led me to put them into the "intermediate" group. Again, the argument is fair to put them in the weakly struck group as well...but my definition for the intermediate group was a wide range of strike quality available. This coin does have that.</p><p><br /></p><p>That was my reasoning...but again, arguments can be made for either category and both are fair.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="CamaroDMD, post: 2571402, member: 5233"]I went back and looked at some of my resources and the information I used when I first wrote that article. The only reference that I have that goes into great detail about the 1904-O strike is [I]Comprehensive Guide and Encyclopedia of Morgan and Peace Dollars [/I]by Leroy Van Allen and George Mallis. This book described the strike of the 1904-O as "usually slightly weak" but it does make mention of fully struck examples and flat struck examples being available because of the higher mintage figure. This and my own searching of online examples through HA and my own personal experience with the series led me to put them into the "intermediate" group. Again, the argument is fair to put them in the weakly struck group as well...but my definition for the intermediate group was a wide range of strike quality available. This coin does have that. That was my reasoning...but again, arguments can be made for either category and both are fair.[/QUOTE]
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