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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1943546, member: 112"]Chris I don't know where you ever got the idea that wear is the worst damage that can occur to a coin. There are lots and lots of coins with MS details that cannot be graded because they have damage of one kind or another eg: scratches, rim dings, harsh cleaning, over-dipping, gouges, planchet flaws, the goes on. But coins with wear can be graded. So there's no way wear is worse than damage, or even a form of damage. You're welcome to your opinion of course that coins with lots of contact marks should not be graded as high or higher than a nice looking AU coin. But the very definition of an uncirculated coin is one that has no wear, that's what it has always been. As far back as the 1800's that's what it's been. I think the mistake you're making with your thinking is that just because a coin has a higher grade such as MS61 vs AU58 that the MS61 coin is somehow better than the AU58. But that just isn't true. I don't think you could find even one person who would say it is true. The MS61 is merely a descriptor of the coin that indicates that the coin has no wear. At least that's what it's supposed to be. I mean just about everybody would agree that a nice AU58 looks far better than any MS61, or 62 for that matter. And some 63s. It is only when you get to 64 and higher that MS grade coins begin to look better than some AU coins. The nice looking AU coins even often sell for more than low grade MS coins. Unless you're a plastic buyer. So I don't think the TPGs are consciously trying to correct any mistake in the grading process at all. I think it's quite simple, the TPGs are giving their customers what the customer wants, and nothing more than that.[/QUOTE]

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