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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2512476, member: 112&quot;]In this case, it didn&#039;t affect it at all. A scratch, in and of itself, cannot drop a grade from MS to AU. A scratch is either judged severe enough to make the coin ungradeable or it isn&#039;t severe enough to do that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, a scratch can lower an MS grade, like from a 64 to 63, or a 65 to a 64. But even for the TPGs the only thing that differentiates an AU from an MS is wear. Contact marks, scratches, hairlines - none of that stuff can ever drop a coin from MS to AU. The one and only thing that can do that is wear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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