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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 2937260, member: 24314"]coinsareus10, posted: "Joke right?" I was going to reply to this but it has been done. Jason is basically correct.  Originally, once a coin drops from MS the only thing that was supposed to affect its grade was further loss of detail (wear).  Unfortunately, the great minds at the ANA screwed the pooch!  When they wrote the grading guide, they included contact marks into the equation!  So, Baseball is also correct to a point.  An unmarked AU-58 coin is graded higher than a beat up AU-58 (AU-50).  From XF down it does not matter as much although the ANA geniuses continued the "typical" and "choice" BS further down the scale.  The problem is we can find beat-up AU-58 coins (should be downgraded to AU-50) straight graded in major TPGS AU-58 slabs all day long!  Wait, there's more.  The Large cent collectors use "net" grading to screw the pooch further (poor dog) as it has little relation to reality!  For example, in that system, a coin with MS details can be "Net Graded" as an XF!  Since this coin has few "problems" IMO the net graders would agree with most here and say AU. Therefore, anyone grading the OP's coin from XF to AU is 100% correct.[/QUOTE]