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<p>[QUOTE="Sunflower_Coins, post: 3832895, member: 92388"]It's hard tell from the pictures, but the lack of details may be due to the strike, and not wear. Most coins from Denver and San Francisco in the early 20's had poor strikes. David Hall writes, "this is the first issue in the Walking Liberty half dollar series in which strike can be a definite problem. From here on out...until the last S-Mint was struck in 1946, most of the S-Mint Walkers have weak stirke problems, some severely so. It is not unusual to find mint state 1923-S half dollars that are very weakly struck on Ms. Liberty's hand and the central devices on the reverse." (Via the PCGS Coinfacts page for the 1923-S 50C).</p><p><br /></p><p>There isn't a lot of wear in the fields of the graded coin. If you look away from the high points, it does appear similar to a typical Choice VF/XF coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sunflower_Coins, post: 3832895, member: 92388"]It's hard tell from the pictures, but the lack of details may be due to the strike, and not wear. Most coins from Denver and San Francisco in the early 20's had poor strikes. David Hall writes, "this is the first issue in the Walking Liberty half dollar series in which strike can be a definite problem. From here on out...until the last S-Mint was struck in 1946, most of the S-Mint Walkers have weak stirke problems, some severely so. It is not unusual to find mint state 1923-S half dollars that are very weakly struck on Ms. Liberty's hand and the central devices on the reverse." (Via the PCGS Coinfacts page for the 1923-S 50C). There isn't a lot of wear in the fields of the graded coin. If you look away from the high points, it does appear similar to a typical Choice VF/XF coin.[/QUOTE]
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