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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1627049, member: 112&quot;]Don&#039;t misunderstand what they are telling you. A scratch is scratch and it doesn&#039;t matter if it occurred at the mint or outside the mint because a scratch can only occur after the strike. </p><p><br /></p><p>What they are telling you is that there are things that can occur before the coin is struck, things like planchet defects. And depending on the severity of that planchet defect the TPG may show leniency. Scratches are a completely different animal than planchet defects.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, it is also important to realize and understand, and this is what Leadfoot mentioned, there is a threshold, that if it is crossed, that planchet defect will result in the coin being put in a Details/Genuine slab. </p><p><br /></p><p>edit - It is also important to understand that the TPG&#039;s are much more lenient with planchet defects on early coinage than they are with anything else. A planchet defect that was accepted on early coinage will not be accepted on later coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can&#039;t always, but sometimes you can. If a gouge occurs before the coin is struck there will be no raised metal around the gouge. But if it occurs after the coin is struck there will be raised or displaced metal around the gouge. How easy it is to see that raised/displaced metal will depend on the severity of the gouge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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