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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7549321, member: 19463&quot;]Your photos do not show what I call smoothing.&nbsp; I would have expected something more along the line of scratches.&nbsp; I believe it is appropriate to downgrade a coin more for man made, modern defects than for normal circulation defects.&nbsp; These look like amateur cleaning and polishing to me.&nbsp; Return it and stop bidding on coins that seller offers that have any question about surfaces.&nbsp; I&#039;d stop bidding on them altogether but people consider that overreacting.&nbsp; If they take it back, I would expect it to be relisted without more description and sold for more than you paid.&nbsp; They will have no problem finding a buyer who will not look at the coin and be glad they won something in the current market.&nbsp; When (if?) they do that, you will know you are correct to walk away from their sales.&nbsp; On the other hand, auctions are not approval sales.&nbsp; You might be better off paying a few percent to someone attending the sale to represent you when buying coins in this bracket.&nbsp;&nbsp; What is the going rate? With Covid, is it even possible to find auction representatives?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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