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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3300435, member: 19165&quot;]I don&#039;t see any actual wear on your coin. Slight marks on the high points is a sign of a weak strike. Tomaska calls it &quot;high point pitting,&quot; but the basic idea is that the strike wasn&#039;t strong enough to fully strike up all the details. On the high points, you have a bit of roughness from the planchet that wasn&#039;t struck out. In my opinion, this limits the grade of the coin, but some disagree. This is something that [USER=15309]@Lehigh96[/USER] and I have discussed many times. </p><p><br /></p><p>If that is what your coin shows, then that may have contributed to the lower grade. I think the dull luster is a bigger grade driver on this particular coin, coupled with a somewhat negative eye appeal (in my opinion). I don&#039;t really see major marks in your photographs, but the strike/luster is enough to keep it from gem, as you suspect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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