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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 1427002, member: 22004&quot;]Thanks, not much of a distraction IMO.&nbsp; What the grading services call &quot;damaged&quot; for grading purposes usually makes sense, but I have seen a fair number of graded coins that were damaged and were either not caught or considered to be &quot;bad enough&quot;.&nbsp; I once picked up an 1874 $20 Liberty that looked MS but had an &quot;Y&quot; right on the cheek of liberty.&nbsp; NGC graded it MS60.&nbsp; My guess is they did not see it as grafitti or &quot;intentional&quot;; so it seems that TPGS&#039; decisions may go to &quot;intentionality&quot;, that accidental marks are accepted but if someone did something directly to mark the coin, it no grades.&nbsp; In the case of the half cent I posted, it looks like grafitti to me, but very old.&nbsp; Coin detectives are good at coming up with the original causes of these things.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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