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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 822279, member: 6036"]I certainly agree this would have been a good thing. I some cases they achieved this, but often not. Perhaps they felt artistic considerations outweighed strking issues, or felt modern technology could compensate by providing adequate strking pressure.  One way to achieve this is to have a Liberty bust in the middle of the obverse and a wreath on the reverse. Thus, the deepest parts of the reverse correspond to the obverse fields, which have zero "die depth". On the many coins with an eagle on the reverse, the deepest parts of the two dies line up. Those coins require more pressure to strike, and are more likely to have weak strikes at the deepest parts of the die - the highest part of the design. Morgan Dollar people see this all the time, since the deepest obverse portion (the hair above the ear) is opposite the deepest reverse portion (the eagle's breast). They've made a science about which issues are more likely to suffer from poor strikes; collectors adjust their expectations accordingly.[/QUOTE]