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<p>[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 480638, member: 11521"]Peter,</p><p> </p><p>A weak strike and worn dies are two different animals. A weak strike, as the name implies, occurs when not enough force (or pressure) is used to strike the coin resulting in weak details. The dies may have full details but the details are not brought up on the coin due to the weak strike. </p><p> </p><p>On the other hand a worn die does not have the details and cannot produce a coin with full details no matter how much force (or pressure) is used to strike the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Hobo, post: 480638, member: 11521"]Peter, A weak strike and worn dies are two different animals. A weak strike, as the name implies, occurs when not enough force (or pressure) is used to strike the coin resulting in weak details. The dies may have full details but the details are not brought up on the coin due to the weak strike. On the other hand a worn die does not have the details and cannot produce a coin with full details no matter how much force (or pressure) is used to strike the coin.[/QUOTE]
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