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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dimeguy, post: 7767225, member: 19855&quot;]This is more for a general discussion than for a question answering. I know my own answer regarding the series I am collecting currently, but I wanted to hear the opinions of others:</p><p><br /></p><p>When or do you consider die states in your collections? If a series is known to be weakly struck do you take that as something known in the back of your mind as you search, or still hunt and peck for the one with the finest details from the best strike? Are there certain aspects of your series that you must have on the coin, despite all other features of the die beginning to fail? Do you purposefully collect those with poor die states or modifications? </p><p><br /></p><p>I know for me in working on the Lincoln Cents, I like to have all lines in the wheat stalk show, complete &quot;O&quot; in &quot;ONE&quot;, Lincoln&#039;s jaw line must be defined and not flattened and a fairly clean shoulder/lapel but that is just me...which can become quite challenging in the 1920&#039;s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Still, I am sure there are others with different views and there are different series with die issues (Peace dollar for example), and I simply just want to open the conversation up to the topic. Furthermore, when do you decide between a fairly clean AU or a low to mid grade MS with all sorts of die chips and compromised features or do you as collectors even make the compromise?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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