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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2087782, member: 112&quot;]CBD the concept is pretty simple. A coin is designed a specific way, every little detail is supposed to be there, and there is not supposed to be anything else there but those details. The dies match that design exactly. </p><p><br /></p><p>When the die is new, and for the beginning part of it&#039;s life, it produces coins that look exactly as they are supposed to look. Now of there is something wrong in the machinery, like maybe the strike pressure is set too low or the dies are set too far apart, then the coins that are produced do not look like they are supposed to look according to design because they are weakly struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I don&#039;t know of anybody who will argue that a weakly struck coin is the equal of a fully struck coin, assuming all other things are equal. The weakly struck coin simply cannot be graded as high as the fully struck example. </p><p><br /></p><p>The same logic follows in all other things. A coin struck on a flawed panchet cannot be graded as high as a coin struck on a planchet of good quality. In fact some coins struck on flawed planchets cannot even be graded at all. </p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore it must also follow that should the die become flawed by whatever then the coins struck by that flawed die cannot be equal to the coins the same die struck before it became flawed. If the die breaks and develops cracks then rather obviously the die is flawed, it is broken. If the die is scratched during the course of its normal use then the die is flawed. All dies are polished in the beginning, but have you ever seen die polish lines on a coin struck with new dies ? No. Why ? Because there are not supposed to be any die polish lines visible, they are all polished way when the polishing is done correctly. So if die polish lines are visible on the die and its subsequent coins then it is because the die was not re-polished correctly because somebody screwed up, thus the die is flawed. </p><p><br /></p><p>These are all the very definitions of flaws, mistakes, screw ups. So can any coin struck with flawed dies be the equal of a coin struck with unflawed dies ? It&#039;s just basic common sense, they cannot be.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now are there people (collectors) who wish that not to be so ? Rather obviously, you claim to be one yourself. So what do the TPGs do ? They give you what you want and they grade the flawed coins as if the flaws were not even there. That is their business, it is what they do. And people consciously choose to believe it does not matter because they don&#039;t want it to matter. They want their flawed coins graded just as high as the unflawed coins. In spite of the fact that plain, basic common sense says they cannot be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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