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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 52319, member: 112&quot;]You are correct - uncirculated coins can show contact marks - in fact most do. The second part of your question is a bit more complicated. Typically contact marks would not drop the grade of an unc coin to AU - only wear will do that. But what some may call a contact mark may not be a contact mark at all - it may be damage. And damage will keep a coin from being graded as unc. It may even keep the coin from being graded at all by some grading companies. Others will net grade the coin as Unc details - Net AU or Net XF depending on the severity of the damage.</p><p><br /></p><p>So there are several variables at play here - and without seeing the coin there is no way to say what the correct grade should be. Can you post a link to the auction so that we may see it ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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