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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2305061, member: 24314&quot;]You had me until:&nbsp; Actually, any truly knowledgeable professional TPG/dealer/collector CAN <span style="color: #b30000">(using magnification &amp; the proper light source) </span>tell the difference between wear/strike weakness <span style="color: #b30000">on any coin type, from any country, of any metal, from any era (that includes Ancients) with 99.99% accuracy. As long as the item (coin/medal/token) has an original surface. This determination becomes harder when the surface is impaired for what the reason - slight wear is the example you give.&nbsp; Furthermore, a Contact Mark can NEVER look like wear.&nbsp; That is NEVER unless someone wishes to change the definition of a contact mark.&nbsp; And let&#039;s agree not to come up with some &quot;nit&quot; to refute this such as: I&#039;ll SCRAPE (contact mark) this coin&#039;s high point, then abrade it, and chemically etch it so it looks like a large amount of wear from circulation.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #000000">TPG&#039;s are human and certainly do not spend the same amount of time or use the same amount of magnification (most of the time NONE) that we do.&nbsp; We will not always agree with them.&nbsp; Even further, they may judge a coin has actual wear - ignore it because it is &quot;market acceptable&quot; - and hide under the terms &quot;cabinet friction&quot; or &quot;weak strike.&quot; </span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #000000">And: What about all of us dealers who sell AU coins using the same reasons to grade it Unc $$$$?</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #000000">Finally: From my personal experience (much less than the posters on this thread for sure), more than 90% of everyone (collectors/dealers)&nbsp; can&#039;t tell actual wear on anything - including Walker&#039;s! </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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