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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2927335, member: 112&quot;]Yes, the break in the luster is there. But it&#039;s hard to see because the color usually matches perfectly and because it is so small. The putty isn&#039;t just smeared on the coin, it is only put into the contact mark itself, with great care taken to get no putty around the outer edges of the mark. </p><p><br /></p><p>So unless you look very, very carefully you will not see it. And even if you do see it, it&#039;s all to easy to assume that it is nothing more than a very light contact mark that has broken the luster. In other words, they simply don&#039;t realize that it is putty.</p><p><br /></p><p>And contact marks are not a reason for no grade. And when they are very, very light, they don&#039;t even have much negative effect on the grade. That is why putty is used, because it allows coins that if left alone would probably grade 2 or even 3 grades lower. And with some coins that mean a difference of tens of thousands of dollars, and some a great deal more than that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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