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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2775005, member: 112&quot;]Doubtful, contact marks and the gunk in the recesses (what you refer to as the black dot) have very little if any effect on the grade of circulated coins. Circulated coins are almost always graded solely on the amount of wear they have. And that coin appears to have a good bit of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I cannot tell from your pictures, even when I blow them up, with any degree of certainty what is wear and what is weak strike on the high points. As you mentioned the difference between the two can be determined with a close in hand inspection. However, what I can see with certainly is the amount of wear in the fields, and there is a lot of it. While it is possible for a coin to have some wear in the fields, and only a little or even none on the raised devices, when there is <u>that</u> much wear in the fields it is almost a given that there is an equal amount or some or most of the devices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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