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<p>[QUOTE="Mac McDonald, post: 8046804, member: 117420"]All this techno-babble definitions of what is/what isn't a scratch...assuming mostly for TPG/grade or "details"...is unnecessary if you think of it this way: it's a scratch if it's heavy/significant enough to appear intentional, and/or enough to alter, cover-over, obliterate/remove, etc, any defining part of a coin so as to make it hard-to-impossible to readily identify the coin. If it doesn't meet any of that criteria then it's simply a mark and shouldn't prevent it from receiving a straight, if net, grade. If you don't simplify it in such a way you'll be forever debating what is/isn't a "scratch" by size, width, length, metal moved...and by interpretation/opinion, etc, etc. The first/former example could be termed a "positive scratch" and the lesser, benign example could be termed a "negative scratch"...if you want to apply the "scratch" word to both. Think this would greatly help with more easily forming better opinions/interpretations by TPGs as to what coins get a fair grade/straight grade rather than being trashed to "details" for nothing more than a minor/benign "scratch." My two "sense."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mac McDonald, post: 8046804, member: 117420"]All this techno-babble definitions of what is/what isn't a scratch...assuming mostly for TPG/grade or "details"...is unnecessary if you think of it this way: it's a scratch if it's heavy/significant enough to appear intentional, and/or enough to alter, cover-over, obliterate/remove, etc, any defining part of a coin so as to make it hard-to-impossible to readily identify the coin. If it doesn't meet any of that criteria then it's simply a mark and shouldn't prevent it from receiving a straight, if net, grade. If you don't simplify it in such a way you'll be forever debating what is/isn't a "scratch" by size, width, length, metal moved...and by interpretation/opinion, etc, etc. The first/former example could be termed a "positive scratch" and the lesser, benign example could be termed a "negative scratch"...if you want to apply the "scratch" word to both. Think this would greatly help with more easily forming better opinions/interpretations by TPGs as to what coins get a fair grade/straight grade rather than being trashed to "details" for nothing more than a minor/benign "scratch." My two "sense."[/QUOTE]
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