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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1747488, member: 112&quot;]Even the TPG&#039;s have no set rules for determining if a coin is a problem coin or not. Neither does anybody else. There are merely guidelines, and making the decision is arbitrary. But to kind of answer your question, the size of the coin plays a large part in making the determination that it is a problem coin - the smaller the coin, the more impact any issues will have. In other words, if that were a silver dollar, then those scratches would be quite small in relation to the size of the coin, and the coin would probably be put in a regular slab. But on a dime, or any of the small denomination gold coins, those scratches exceed the limit because the coin is so small.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The same principles are applied with grading. Marks of a given size &amp; type have a much greater detrimental impact on small coins than they do on larger coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As I said earlier, I don&#039;t think those scratches are from a harsh cleaning. But I too think the coin is a problem coin. I just think that NGC used the wrong designation on the slab. Instead of saying the coin was harshly cleaned, they should have just said Scratched on the slab.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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