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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3132432, member: 112&quot;]Sometimes yes, other times no - at least as far as the TPGs are concerned. But if one follows long established grading standards, it never matters - scratched is scratched regardless of what the coin is, or its condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see, the TPGs are extremely inconsistent when it comes to the rules of grading. Take large cents for example, the truly vast majority of them are damaged, by corrosion mostly, but scratches, gouges, etc etc as well. And yet the TPGs routinely give them clean grades. When were it any other coin they would not be cleanly graded at all. Same kinda thing applies to scratches. If a coin is scarce enough, valuable enough, or from a given pedigree, the TPGs throw the rules of grading out the window and give clean grades.</p><p><br /></p><p>The do this much in the same way as treat wear on coins. They know for an absolute fact that a coin has wear on it, yet they grade it MS anyway. And they use the excuse, and I say excuse because that&#039;s all it is, that it&#039;s not really wear because caused by this or by that. Pretending of course that they can even tell the difference ! Wear is wear, regardless of what causes it, and it is absolutely impossible to distinguish what caused the wear to begin with ! But yet they do it anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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