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Message:: [QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 4501124, member: 99554"]I'm not intelligent enough to answer your question, but [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER] gave interesting informations on the subject 15 years ago on another board :    " The three phenomena are fundamentally different, so easy to distinguish.      DIE WEAR affects the sharpness of every detail of types and lettering, and is usually like a fog rising from the surface of the coin, blurring the lines where types and letters meet the surface but allowing the higher relief to stay fairly clear.        COIN WEAR is pretty much the opposite:  it immediately affects all of the HIGHEST points of the design and legend but leaves the coin surface and the less raised parts of the types virtually intact.  If the die was in good condition, the lines where types and legends meet the surface will still be sharp even on a worn coin.       WEAK STRIKE means the dies were not hammered hard enough to force metal into the deepest recesses of the types and legends.  Usually it affects only one edge of the coin, so will be revealed by the contrast between the weakness there and the sharpness everywhere else.  Moreover weak strike must inevitably affect the same area of the flan on BOTH SIDES of the coin."[/QUOTE]