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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 104283, member: 112"]Coins like this provide a good learning experience for all of us so I am tickled to death to have folks post them. Telling an AU58 from an MS60/61 can be hard to do and many misgrade them. At first I wondered about there being minor wear on the bonnet and the left wing's upper edge. But that could be where the frost was rubbed off from bag marks. Generally the coin appears to have pretty good luster, although broken in many places. That combined with the hairlines would limit to the lower MS grades as others have said. But scratches are another matter entirely. A scratched coin is considered a damaged coin and generally ungradeable - if it is severe enough. But that is a fine line that you only learn with experience. And the only way to learn and get the experience is to talk about it with others and look at lots of coins.[/QUOTE]