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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2968162, member: 112&quot;]The term carbon spots has become something of a colloquialism, a catch all phrase if you will, used to describe just about any dark colored spots on a coin. But in reality that is inaccurate for carbon spots are a specific thing and have a very distinct definition - they are literally specks of carbon (black spots) found in the alloy used to make the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>These spots on your coin, that&#039;s not what they are. Yeah they&#039;re dark colored spots, but they were possibly, I might even say probably, caused by something along the lines of a sneeze or a cough getting saliva droplets onto the coin. And then over time those droplets turned dark in color by causing the metal to tone dark where they were. Spots similar to these are pretty common on many coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does the coin grade a 66 ? Not even close. Based on the pics the luster appears to be pretty subdued, even for a Peace dollar. But overall the coin is fairly clean in regard to contact marks. Sure there are some there but they are small and few in number. And the spots, well they are a detractor any way ya want to look at it. I&#039;d have to see the coin in hand to judge the luster fairly but given what I can see I would not grade the coin higher than 64 and possibly even 63.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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