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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirkjames, post: 1475755, member: 38780&quot;]If you don&#039;t mind a couple more questions that came up when I was originally looking at grading guides, since I don&#039;t suppose they are worth another thread.</p><p>So, look at this example coin:</p><p>[ATTACH]185973.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a pretty ok coin with nice details but the wear due to the scratches would put it a around an F grade perhaps? But then, someone actually wrote initials on the coin. I know that cleaning a coin never makes things better, so you are stuck with the writing, but there is nothing about writing on any of the grading guides I have seen. Does something like that simply drop it to the lowest grade (which, fortunately for this coin, does not harm its gold bullion value).</p><p><br /></p><p>Then this coin:</p><p>[ATTACH]185974.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not very curious about its grade since it is very worn (with a barely visible Perth mintmark), but I am curious about the wear itself, there are less deep scratches than on other coins, however on one side the edge is almost flat. How do you get that kind of asymmetric wear? And the reverse side is very shiny, shinier than most of my other coins of the era and shinier than the obverse of the same coin - does that indicate any attempts at cleaning perhaps?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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