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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 7339691, member: 24314"]JeffC, posted: "In this case, would the reason for the Details grade be "Graffiti" or just "Damage?"  I'm assuming, of course, that it would get a Details grade." Great question.  Things have changed DRAMATICLY <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> in the authentication business since the 1970's.  In the early days, this coin would have been returned as a fraudulent alteration: reengraved diamonds!  Today, coins as this are slabbed with a "details" grade.  I don't like it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie92" alt=":stop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> An even worse case is the Micro "O" Morgan dollars that managed to slip into the VAM listings for years.  When they were discovered to be counterfeits there was so much <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> MONEY <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> involved that the industry has accepted them with open arms.[/QUOTE]