[RyanG] I was always told to differentiate wear vs weak strike was that weak strike appeared as more rounded where wear give the appearance of more flattened, is there another consideration?

[Zach150] Good question. Some areas, like the leaf stems, are very hard to see, yet on a fully struck coin, even in XF, would still be visible because they are not high points. There are several points on this coin that are not high points that are not fully struck. Also, the US Mint used up dies till they broke. I'm not an expert on die states of a 1839 D Quarter Eagle so I can't tell you what the die state is but it does appear to me that it was a LDS as well as a light strike. Full disclosure, I probably would have guessed a VF30.

[YN_Evan2010] I can’t see it past a vf25, the obverse is better then the reverse, I just looked at CoinFacts pics and the reverse feathers look more worn than the F-15 example, where the obverse is similar to the Vf-25 just with a little more disturbance to liberty than their example 25