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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3257113, member: 112&quot;]When it comes to grading they are, or at least should be, graded the same way any other coin is. What I&#039;m trying to say is it doesn&#039;t matter whether a detractor (wear, contact marks, hairlines, scratches etc etc) is in the fields or on the devices - it counts against the grade. Yes, sometimes the location can make it count more than another location, but that is true of any other coin as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think a part of the reason that some don&#039;t really understand how to grade these is because they think that wear always occurs on the high points of a coin first. But this is not the case at all. Wear can and often does first appear on the low points of a coin - in the fields. In other words, even with conventional coins it is not uncommon to find wear in the fields and none at all on the high points. So with incuse Indians the opposite can also easily happen - any detractor may well appear on the devices first, the lower points of the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of folks also don&#039;t realize that the high point of the devices on the incuse coins is only the tiniest fraction lower than the fields, so wear or contact marks etc can easily appear there first.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what you&#039;re saying Randy is as a general rule true. Because the fields on these coins are higher than the devices it is more common to find detractors in the fields. But that doesn&#039;t mean the coins are graded by that criteria alone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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