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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 8210443, member: 112"]But they should be ! Chop marks are no different than any graffiti on a coin made by anybody else. Chop marks are damage by definition because they were made by private individuals. Giving coins with chop marks a clean grade is just another example the of the TPGs giving certain collectors what they want.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the same thing - a details grade - should most definitely apply to any and all coins that have been badly corroded by salt water, or badly corroded by anything else for that matter. Corrosion is corrosion, it doesn't matter what causes it, it only matters that it is present.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 8210443, member: 112"]But they should be ! Chop marks are no different than any graffiti on a coin made by anybody else. Chop marks are damage by definition because they were made by private individuals. Giving coins with chop marks a clean grade is just another example the of the TPGs giving certain collectors what they want. And the same thing - a details grade - should most definitely apply to any and all coins that have been badly corroded by salt water, or badly corroded by anything else for that matter. Corrosion is corrosion, it doesn't matter what causes it, it only matters that it is present.[/QUOTE]
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