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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mark Feld, post: 904442, member: 11467&quot;]The PCGS guidelines you quoted state, in part: &quot;<i>Gem Uncirculated There may be some scattered marks, hairlines, or other minor defects. If the flaws are in a main focal area, they must be minor and few.&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i>To me, that does not necessarily address the situation where there is a single mark. &quot;Scattered&quot; certainly means means more than one, and ditto for &quot;flaws&quot;. The ANA guidelines also refer to &quot;marks&quot;, not a single mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>In many, if not most cases, the ANA standards to which you refer are general and ambiguous enough such that they do not allow one to distinguish one grade from the next. And that is not a complaint, as I don&#039;t think written standards are capable of doing that.</p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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