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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 421876, member: 112"]Kind of, PCGS also says in their grading guide - " Often the best way to understand something is to understand what it is not. When coins are truly worn, (those coins grading AU55 and lower), it is not difficult to 'see' the wear. ........" " True wear mainly comes from from circulation and usually there is some discoloration. When the wear is from one of the other 'problems' there may not be discoloration. Plastic in album slides and flips will not cause the same discoloration as contact with cloth or human hands, or other ways in which a coin becomes circulated. Since wear from circulation usually causes discoloration, comparing the affected area with pristine areas by tilting the coin under a good light source will determine whether the luster is really broken by actual wear. When a coin is worn enough to grade AU55 or lower, dullness is observed by a casual glance at the coin." And this next part kind of says it all - " If you need magnification to see the 'wear', it is either not wear or it is wear that is so slight as to not prevent the coin from grading Uncirculated." So there you have it, a flat out statement that a coin can have wear and they will still grade it as MS. Compare that to a previous quote from their guide - " Circulated coins - these are coins that have undergone wear, however slight, as a result of use in circulation or mishandling." Now if that is not a direct contradiction then I don't know what would be. What they are saying is that if they want to grade a coin as MS, they will - whether it has wear or not.[/QUOTE]

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