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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hamhawk, post: 1209519, member: 31158&quot;]I was at an auction yesterday.&nbsp; It wasn&#039;t a coin auction, but they had some coins, and currency.&nbsp; Most of the stuff was in nice shape but out of my price range so I didn&#039;t stick around for the bidding.&nbsp; they had a table set up with ICCS graded Canadian coins.&nbsp; I&#039;m not a numismatist by any stretch of the imagination, that&#039;s why I&#039;m here asking for advice.&nbsp; Two of the coins, both 1950s silver dollars caught my attention.&nbsp; The first was graded MS60 the second was MS63.&nbsp; My problem with that is they had both been clearly circulated.&nbsp; There were not just scratches and dings but the MS60 actualy had a dent in the rim which was visible from several feet away (that&#039;s what caught my attention I thought I might get a deal on a date I need).&nbsp; I know that sometimes the soft plastic gets scuffed, so I checked to see if that was causeing shadows which mades the coins look so circulated.&nbsp; Maybe a bit but these coins were effinitly circulating for some time.</p><p><br /></p><p>So my questions:&nbsp; Is it possible for a coin to be graded MS60-63 with damage visible from 5 feet away, or is it possible that the graded coins were some how removed and these ones inserted?&nbsp; Or were they overgraded?</p><p><br /></p><p>Some more information:&nbsp; I heard about this auction house from a number of people, who i trust and they tell me the place is very trustworthy and proffesional, I don&#039;t doubt that.&nbsp; I&#039;m not here to bash the auction company just curious about the grading.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for your time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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