MAD causing weak or missing attributes
mensareject
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Sorry guys I'm really trying to grasp what I'm looking at. After reading some posts and seeing some examples of MAD versus off center strikes,
I'm not really understanding where the strikes will appear weak. On this penny what is maybe a weak area and not just from wear?
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Did you post the right pictures? The coin you show is neither misaligned nor off-center.
Here's a MAD. The opposing reverse, around "ONE", isn't weak. Often times the opposing side is weak. It depends partly on how far the die is misaligned.
The diagnostic for MAD does not require any weakness. I would separate the two concepts. Numerous coins show weakness even if aligned properly. Numerous MAD coins (like the one above) don't show weakness, especially if the misalignment is minor.
The general question about wear versus weakness is a challenge for circulated coins. It's a virtual nightmare for ancient coins that were hand struck. A Mint state coin could be so weakly struck as to appear to be a VF coin.
I'm not sure there is a really simple diagnostic other than experience. Some strikes are generally weak over a large area of a coin, for example New Orleans Mint Morgan dollars. Other times, the strike weakness is more localized as with the Blakesly effect on clipped planchet coins or SOME MAD coins.