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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;walterallen, post: 359137, member: 4068&quot;]I believe your trying to distinguish between a bag mark and a &quot;circulating scratch&quot; on this coin. Bag marks are acceptable damage to MS coins where scratches would infer that the coin had been pocketed an thus no longer a MS coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin appears to have a scratch. If you view a lot of MS coins and see a lot of various bag marks you will notice that this mark is uncommon to those, IMO. </p><p><br /></p><p>When it comes to counterfeit coins I have no experience and certainly no expertise with them. How ever I would suggest you study, if you already haven&#039;t, the process of minting coins. Knowing how dies are made and how metal flows into the dies under the pressure of the strike will enlightened you on why coins appear they way they do. I have some knowledge of metallurgy as a Machinist so I see coins in a much different light.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good Luck and Keep On Collecting!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Allen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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