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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 8050264, member: 105571&quot;]The scratches/hairlines are not on the holder, they are on the coin and I mentioned them in the original post.&nbsp; They are so small that they can&#039;t be seen with the naked eye and I didn&#039;t even know they were there until I saw my photographs.&nbsp; Then, I couldn&#039;t detect them with a 5X loupe.&nbsp; They only showed up when I used a 10X loupe.</p><p><br /></p><p>In another thread that [USER=24314]@Insider[/USER] started on the definition of a scratch, I mentioned that the limit of the 20/20 unaided human eye is 10 microns, which is 0.000393701 inches, but let&#039;s just call it 0.0004&quot;.&nbsp; That is 4 ten thousands of an inch.&nbsp; A human hair is about 70 microns +- 20.</p><p><br /></p><p>This little half dime is 6/10&#039;s of an inch in diameter.&nbsp; What do you think the width of those hairlines might be?</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I&#039;m not at all sure calling these marks scratches or even hairlines is appropriate.&nbsp; It is one of the problems of high resolution photography in that it magnifies&nbsp; &quot;defects&quot; that are so small that they wouldn&#039;t signify in any normal environment.</p><p><br /></p><p>And one other thing about hairlines:&nbsp; The TPGs routinely straight-grade MS and PF coins with hairlines.&nbsp; They may, and often do, knock the grade down for them.&nbsp; And individual collectors are of course free to consider them how they like irrespective of what the TPGs do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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