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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1652810, member: 112&quot;]To help you understand, imagine this if you would. A coin is struck with brand new dies. Everything about the strike went just right, the pressure, the centering, the metal flow, all of the devices are fully detailed. The coin is a close to perfect as a coin can get. A 70 in other words.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that same pair of dies is used to strike 300,000 more coins. The 300,000th coin coin comes off the dies and it is just as new and uncirculated as the first coin was. But, over the course of those 300,000 strikes the strike pressure has dropped, the dies have come out of adjustment and the coin is not well centered, the metal flow was not as good because of this, and the quality of strike is no where near as good as it was on the first coin - the devices are not fully detailed.</p><p><br /></p><p>So here you have 2 coins, both brand new, uncirculated, and fresh from the dies. But one of them is as close to perfect as it can get, and the other one is no where near close to that. So obviously the second coin cannot be graded a 70, it must be graded something less than that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Understand now ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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