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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 301316, member: 9270&quot;]IMO the first coin has been cleaned, and not very gently.</p><p>But the strike is not too bad.</p><p>Remember it&#039;s a small coin in a hard alloy.</p><p>Not much metal to push around to fill the die, and what there was didn&#039;t push easily.</p><p>I&#039;d label it an average strike.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The second coin is a much more normal strike.</p><p>Note the weakness in the first &quot;I&quot; of the &quot;III&quot;.</p><p>That&#039;s a standard weak area.</p><p>Liberty&#039;s cheek is on the other side what was a large area to fill, so the first &quot;I&quot; suffered from flatness.</p><p>Actually I think the strike on that coin is slightly above average.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I spent a LOT of time looking for a fully struck 3-cent nickel.</p><p>And when I found one it cost me plenty.</p><p>I saw a MS-66 that wasn&#039;t this good.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Courier New"><b><img src="http://home.comcast.net/~dcderoo/3-1888-MS65.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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