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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1436657, member: 112&quot;]I agree, the coin does have a bit of a weak strike. But as I have tried to explain many times there is a subtle difference between the color and look of a weakly struck area and the color and look of an area with wear. This coin is a good example of being able to see that if you look closely.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at the pic I have cropped. The turquoise arrows point to the portion of the leg (the front half) that is weakly struck but has no wear. See how it is silvery colored and has a kind of pseudo luster to it but is not as lustrous as other areas that are well struck ? And see how it has a kind of rough or bumpy texture ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, when the metal is flowing and trying to fill an area of the die, it kind of bubbles up from below sort of like lava looks like it&#039;s bubbling up from below, pushing through the surrounding material, when you&#039;ve seen pictures of a volcano. And because that flowing metal never actually meets and touches the surface of the die (it stops short of that thus creating the weakly struck area) it stays kind of rough and bumpy instead of being smoothed out when it flows against the surface of the die. And it only gets a like half luster instead of a full luster. Look at the other leg, see how the tops of the feathers are smooth and have full luster ? And see the difference in color from the other leg feathers ? The weakly struck portion is just a shade darker.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now look at the points indicated by the red arrows. See how they are just another shade darker than the weakly struck portion ? And see how they are smooth on the tops instead of having that rougher texture ? They are smooth because they have rubbed against something, smoothing them out. And they are darker because the half luster has been broken by that rubbing. You can see a bit of the same effect on the breast feathers in the a few spots.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said the differences in color and texture are subtle and hard to see. But once you know what those differences are and how they look, it becomes much easier to see them when you look at a coin. And on this coin the wear is very light and could be easily missed, unless you look very closely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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