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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dr. Fosgate, post: 3356341, member: 101300&quot;]Thank you very much for this!&nbsp; Your post has been the single most helpful tidbit of information in the past month I have been playing around with coins.&nbsp; I have been under the impression that the grading scale was an absolute.&nbsp; If a coin looks a certain way, it would fall on the scale somewhere.&nbsp; A coin with less wear would go up the scale, and one with more would go down.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well if I am understanding this correctly now, the scale acts kind of like the old chutes and ladders game.&nbsp; Bag marks are not a big deal between MS60 and MS65, with decreasing amounts tolerated.&nbsp; Any post mint damage automatically drops you down a &quot;chute&quot; to AU58.&nbsp; By definition, this damage would not allow you to go any higher on the scale.&nbsp; This would also explain why my graded coins don&#039;t look all that great, but still grade MS, they have bag marks, not post mint damage.</p><p><br /></p><p>No matter how nice I think my coin in this thread is, it cannot be any higher than an AU58 by definition.&nbsp; Does it sound like I am getting it now?&nbsp; I feel like an idiot I did not pick up on this, but I don&#039;t recall reading it in any of the books I have or what I have been reading online.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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