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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 310343, member: 6036"]Makes sense. In addition, I suppose that folks tend to handle coins by their centers when making change and making purchases, so the centers tend to wear first. On these coins, that means the Indian's cheekbones and the eagle's shoulder / breast. Hobo's point is right on - broken luster is very hard to detect without coin in hand . It's a little tricky even then; in addition to the eagle's shoulder, the eagle's feathers along his back will be the first to show broken luster. I just rotate it at every angle until I'm happy. Oddly enough, almost ALL MS61s* show luster breaks ! At least a little, particularly on the reverse. One would think that would disqualify them from MS.  Perhaps this is a classic case of "market grading" standards at TPGs. Maybe they take all the sliders and liners and evaluate them on surface preservation and eye appeal - give the best MS61 and the rest AU58.    * graded to top TPGs[/QUOTE]