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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2371070, member: 112&quot;]Possible but not likely. When coins are MS the number of contact marks and their location matters when it comes to determining the grade. But once you leave the MS grades contact marks matter less and less when it comes to determining grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think about this coin specifically, if that coin had no wear on it, how low would the contact marks it does have drop the grade ? A coin like that could be graded 63 all day long, even by me. I&#039;ve seen plenty of 64s in TPG slabs that had more contact marks than that coin has.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you see what I&#039;m getting at about the contact marks having very little influence on the grade for circ coins ? With circ coins especially the things that matter the most when it comes to grade are the amount of wear, the amount of luster remaining, and the eye appeal of the coin - in that order. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s much like it is with MS coins, the quality of luster is arguably the most important individual grading criteria, then comes eye appeal, then comes contact marks, then comes hairlines. And even further down the line, only then is quality of strike considered, if it is even considered at all by the TPGs. Quite often it isn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>And no I&#039;m not saying I agree with that, I think quality of strike should come right after eye appeal. But that&#039;s just me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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