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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom B, post: 1672381, member: 11854&quot;]My view on the surfaces is that gold is a very soft metal that scratches easily.&nbsp; Also, transportation in and around New Orleans in the 1850s was not necessarily comfortable, which means that coins might have been banged around pretty darn good while in transit or commerce.&nbsp; Lastly, a coin with this amount of wear should have seen plenty of commercial transactions and should have been exposed to all sorts of surface insults.&nbsp; Taken together, this makes me forgive the surface impairments on this coin whereas if the scratch were present on an MS 1904 half eagle it would result in a no grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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