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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3725297, member: 19165&quot;]HITS ARE NOT WEAR. </p><p><br /></p><p>Literally the only thing that takes it from MS to AU is wear. Contact marks are fine on an MS coin - they&#039;ll lower the grade down to a minimum of MS-60, but THEY ARE NOT WEAR. </p><p><br /></p><p>I keep seeing people post this same thing over and over, across multiple threads for decades. </p><p><br /></p><p>CONTACT MARKS ARE NOT WEAR. </p><p><br /></p><p>A coin with many contact marks can still have no circulation wear, and can still grade as MS! </p><p><br /></p><p>(I don&#039;t know what this coin grades, I haven&#039;t seen it before. It might be AU, for all I know. I&#039;m merely trying to correct a *widespread* error. A coin *must* have signs of WEAR to be called AU. Contact marks are not wear!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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