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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 3014814, member: 84179&quot;]The “STATES oF” are weakly struck.&nbsp; If you flip the coin over, you’ll notice that Lincoln’s shoulder is immediately opposite this area.&nbsp; It takes a lot of metal to fill in the shoulder, so if striking pressures are a little low, it will be a lot harder to completely fill the fine detail in the letters.&nbsp; Metal will flow into the localized, low pressure areas first (shoulder).&nbsp; Higher localized pressures are needed to completely fill the letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see this a lot on cents struck in the 80’s and 90’s.&nbsp; Another CT member, [USER=73266]@Hommer[/USER] suggested that the mint was trying to adjust pressures to compensate for the split copper coatings that were a problem.&nbsp; That explanation makes sense to me</p><p><br /></p><p>The do not have any additional value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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