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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jolumoga, post: 26794382, member: 41780&quot;]So I got a Standing Liberty quarter in the mail and noticed it has black dirt along the reverse reliefs, and I decided - tell me if this was a bad idea - to pick out the black dirt with a toothpick. This can go either way in my experience: it can simply remove the dirt, or it can remove the dirt and reveal very tiny pitting (often just one very tiny pit noticeable with a 5x loupe). This pit is tiny, again. So does this pit mean the coin is a details coin if everything else is essentially flawless on an XF coin? This tiny pit may look almost indistinguishable from a nick from another coin at times, as it&#039;s so small.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people might argue to leave the coin as is, but the black gunk these coins collect is not attractive and is clearly not good for the coins in the long run. So the question stands: is this a details coin? My view is that&#039;s insane if the rest of the coin looks like say a solid XF. There are nicks or scratches that can be worse. Maybe some OGs have an answer for this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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