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Is this Buffalo nickel an error or simply a Weak Strike?
coirn
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It's graded MS60 with PCGS.
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<< <i>Very weak strike.
-Paul >>
Full horn though!
Thought that was odd.
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I know with PCGS if you don't pony up the extra cash in the submission for error service then it comes back graded without any special designation.
Then again... could be like so many others declare, just a weak strike.
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It's graded MS60 with PCGS. >>
<< <i>Die adujstment test strike? >>
That was my first thought when I saw it. Wouldn't that make it an error since I don't think it was the mint's intention to release die adjustment strikes into circulation unless the strike was fairly adequate.
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"Die adjustment strikes" represent nothing more than wishful thinking. Unless you were there when a profoundly weak strike was produced, there's no way to establish whether the coin is an escapee from a test run or simply the product of spontaneous equipment malfunction. Many independent lines of evidence suggest that the vast majority of "die adjustment strikes" are simply examples of equipment malfunction. But the myth refuses to die. I'll just keep hammering away until it does.
Looks like grease filled dies to me.
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<< <i>Looks like grease filled dies to me. >>
I had initially thought that too.
I wonder what some of the experts on Buffs like koynekwest and crazyhounddog have to say about it...
I personally think PCGS beat up the grade due to the total weakness of the strike. I am hoping instead though it was caused by grease filled dies. I'll know more when it is delivered.
A so-called "die trial" would show the same extreme weakness around the periphery as well as in the centers and the coin shown would be an atypical example of a grease filled die due to the extent of the weakness.
It's a very cool looking coin either way!!
<< <i>Ya know, this coin looks like a trial strike to me. I've seen weak strikes before but this one here is extreme to say the least! I have read back then the mint were striking these Buffs and many trial strikes were just tossed into the hopper with the rest of the regular strikes. It is also a fact the mint set these dies to far apart as not to break or damage them. But this coin seems just so gosh darn weak I just wonder if it is a trial strike???? But how would a guy know for sure?
It's a very cool looking coin either way!!
I believe a trial strike would show the same extreme weakness around the periphery as well as at the centers.
Here's a PCGS MS63 that is bad but not anywhere as bad as the OP's
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"Die adjustment strikes" represent nothing more than wishful thinking. Unless you were there when a profoundly weak strike was produced, there's no way to establish whether the coin is an escapee from a test run or simply the product of spontaneous equipment malfunction. Many independent lines of evidence suggest that the vast majority of "die adjustment strikes" are simply examples of equipment malfunction. But the myth refuses to die. I'll just keep hammering away until it does. >>
<< <i>Picture getting that in the mail after buying an UNC buff sight unseen >>
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