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Message:: [QUOTE="bhp3rd, post: 832760, member: 16510"]Took me years to learn rim-dings are murder.  On large coins as they are often the ones it's like "in your face"! These worst effects, in my experience are mostly with collector coins in grades VF to AU.  A bad rim-ding can lower an AU to VF-35, 30.  It's bad, very bad because believe it or not until you can really look at all the coins features you may miss some of these because they are on the edge and the edge is not something we normally look at before having a lot of training.  TPG companies murder these coins, an MS-63 with rim ding may get an MS-60 grade or not graded.  They are bad because once seen it's the thing you will see each and every other time you look at that coin forever.That is one reason we covet so AU-58 coins.  They are perfect in many cases but with just slight rub and can be found undervalued often with luster, strike and free of any problems - it's almost the best of both worlds.It's good activity to pull out all you coins (esp. the large ones) on occasion and re-examine them for dings of any kind.[/QUOTE]