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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Morgandude11, post: 1933137, member: 37839&quot;]Talk about being argumentative for the sake of prolonging an argument.&nbsp; THE COIN IS NOT CIRCULATED--it has contact marks, much as a Morgan Dollar does.&nbsp; Are all Morgans with contact marks worn, and thus AU at best?&nbsp; By your standards, a coin would have to be MS 70 in order to be MS--it would need to be devoid of any contact that occurred due to storage with other coins.&nbsp; Talk about being inflexible--the whole idea is to establish a standard, and then use common sense within it.&nbsp; You are NOT using common sense, Doug.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Gold is a soft metal, and shows all contact quite obviously.&nbsp;&nbsp; This coin that has been depicted is so obviously uncirculated---it defines a gem gold coin.&nbsp; Were it to be totally free of any kind of mark, it would be MS 70, and nobody even suggests that.&nbsp; There are some minor contact marks that are acceptable to PCGS (based on the aforementioned standard), and they&#039;re a lot more knowledgeable than you are, Doug.&nbsp; No offense, but you&#039;re a former collector, being absolutely hard-line for the sake of proving that you can do so.&nbsp; Is that realistic, or beneficial for the less experienced collectors who might buy this line of illogic?&nbsp; No it isn&#039;t and it shows in the &quot;guess the grade&quot; contests across the board.&nbsp; You may call it &quot;market grading&quot; or mistakes from TPGs, or whatever, but this is the established standard, and given the established standard, YOU ARE WRONG.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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