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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 8298723, member: 112&quot;]No it doesn&#039;t, wear always looks very different from contact marks, regardless of where it occurs. If a coin in a bag bangs against another coin, that is a single event and yes it creates a contact mark, regardless of what area of the coin is hit by that bang. It can be in the fields, it can be on a high point, on an intermediate height point, it literally be anywhere on the coin. But it is never going to create wear, not ever. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s very simple - it&#039;s because wear looks completely and distinctly different than contact marks. Wear is almost always caused by repeated rubbing in he same area. It could be twice or it could be 3, 4, or 5 times, or more. And I say almost always because wear can be imparted in a single instance, but only when enough pressure is involved. (<i>For example, if you took an MS coin and laid it down on a flat surface, and then while applying pressure to the coin slid it across that flat surface, and pressure is being applied otherwise it could not slide at all, you would impart wear to the coin on its high points.</i>) Whereas individual contact marks always occur from a single instance.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems like you don&#039;t understand what wear looks like and how to tell the difference between wear and contacts marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at the pic, contact marks are circled in red, wear is circled in blue. There is wear in the fields and contact marks in the fields. Do they look in any way the same to you ?&nbsp; (click on the pic to blow it up full size_</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1467905[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, they very obviously don&#039;t. They look distinctly different. There is also wear circled on the breast and Liberty&#039;s left leg - the most common areas for wear to occur on Saints because those are high points.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS, in their own grading book, states flat out, and I quote verbatim - &quot;<i>In truth the only Saints that do not have broken luster on their high points are the counterfeits.</i>&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>This not at all true of course. It is merely how they justify grading coins with wear on them as being MS, (based on their standards), when they are not MS at all, (based on ANA standards). While it is true that majority of Saints do have broken luster (wear) on their high points, there are some Saints that <u>do not</u> have broken luster (wear) anyplace on the coin. Yeah they&#039;re hard to find but they are out there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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