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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;longnine009, post: 54005, member: 1886&quot;]On weak strikes the roundness of high points will still be there but they will be more shallow looking. With wear it will be a flat spot rather than a shallow spot. Coins struck from worn dies will also show better rims than what the grade appears to be. You&#039;ll also see in worn dies elongnated areas such as stars stretching out or stars disappearing. This is because dies wear out the opposite way that coins do. The lowest areas you see on a coin--the fields and things closest to to fields-- are the highest areas on the dies and the planchets moving across the dies are wearing those areas out first.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, it shouldn&#039;t&nbsp; matter if a coin is really an MS60 struck from weak or worn dies.&nbsp; If the coin looks XF it&#039;s worth XF money and not MS money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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