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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2646899, member: 71723"]I kind of agree with you on this thing. I've NEVER seen a scratch on metal that looked like that. I HAVE seen scratches on plastic that look like that. Now, that said, I never say what I've never seen can't exist. It just doesn't sit right from what I see here. I'd like to see this in hand before I'd feel comfortable knowing what I'm seeing. The best explanation of what happened here is upthread when [USER=24314]@Insider[/USER] posted this:"Moderns like this are usually graded very quickly. While we all believe it is over graded, in the big scheme of things, it probably has the same value as one graded either PR-66 or PR-67 AT THE MOMENT." This squares up with what a guest speaker at the Chicago Coin Club said just under two years ago (March 2015). He said that at PCGS moderns are given to inexperienced graders and are told there are only three grades - 68, 69, and 70. It's 70 if you can't find ANY marks, 69 if you see one, and 68 if there's more than one. I believe what we see here confirms that, IF the scratches are on the coin, which while I say it might be better than 50/50 that they are, I'm reluctant to go much higher than that.[/QUOTE]