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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3178881, member: 19165&quot;]If I would turn down the Dexter 1804 dollar, I&#039;d certainly turn down any of those coins. Sorry, scratches, wheel marks, and chop marks (especially chop marks!) are absolute turn offs. I don&#039;t care what coin it is, I wouldn&#039;t own it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>While I respect your opinion, I just can&#039;t agree. Graffiti, test cuts, banker&#039;s marks..... cannot stand them. If I were collecting a series and literally the only coin available had one of these problems then I would have to buy it to complete the set, but for most series there are enough other options that I will avoid any of these things. While the coins you show are mostly attractive, the problems they display just completely turn me off.</p><p><br /></p><p>The test cut on that owl is seriously off-putting, especially since these were such a high mintage and finding problem-free coins is extremely easy. The other coin you show exhibits crystallization, which is a completely natural process and I don&#039;t consider that to be in the same category as graffiti or bankers marks. Crystallization is more in the vein of toning - sometimes it is a good thing, sometimes it goes too far and can be a bad thing. I would avoid extreme crystallization like that piece, but I&#039;m not sure that is &quot;damage&quot; like the rest of the coins in this thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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