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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fiddlehead, post: 7847813, member: 31286&quot;]With the usual caveat that i know nothing, the nature of those &quot;scratches&quot; is a bit strange.&nbsp; The lines look more like stamps than scratches to me.&nbsp; One seems to be sort of on top of the other.&nbsp; Could there be more to this than graffiti?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a relatively rare gold coin (an 1840 D quarter eagle), rare in any condition, that came back from NGC recently as AU scratched - pretty much what one would expect. But the deepest scratch, which looks more like a gouge than a scratch&nbsp; - couldn&#039;t it have been bag damage, or mint damage?&nbsp; How, when there no uniformity, do the graders decide between bag damage and a scratch - one preventing full grade and the other &quot;ok&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; (I did notice that our friend with the mustache (GDJMSP) made reference to the size of the coin vs the size of the &quot;scratch&quot; - this is very small coin and although the mark looks huge in this picture it is not nearly as noticeable in hand - nice luster despite the marks and better than average strike, too).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1351096[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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