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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 8090777, member: 24314&quot;]jeffB, posted: &quot;I think it&#039;s all down to what you&#039;re rubbing <i>with</i>, and of course how hard.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">No, we don&#039;t always need to determine the who, what, where, and when to describe what we see on a coin.&nbsp; Additionally, we don&#039;t need to be ambiguous either.&nbsp; Indeed, a hit from the reeds of another coin is a <b>mark</b>.&nbsp; Educated numismatists have a name for that particular mark (reed mark or bag mark).&nbsp; Folks can use it or not.&nbsp; What they choose to do <b>defines them</b> to others.</span></i>&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mac McDonald, post: &quot;BETTER ANSWER...IMO:&nbsp; This <b><u>mark</u></b> is best called a mark.&nbsp; [<i><span style="color: #660033">PLEASE SEE ABOVE for the difference between being informed or uninformed</span></i>] So many use the term or variation of &quot;mark&quot; as exampled in these posts...and then make the interpretive and subjective decision of adding and/or substituting something else, of which another disagrees with. Better as simply a &quot;mark&quot; or &quot;marks&quot;...even and especially on TPG labels...and allow others to decide what they think. [<b><span style="color: #660033">Which is often not correct!!</span></b>] Maybe heavy or light mark/marks...even abrasive marks or scratch marks...disqualifying mark(s), etc...but by at least including the term mark/marks, one isn&#039;t passing judgment for what it is/isn&#039;t over something else as it appears to another.&nbsp; No matter how hard you try you&#039;ll never define/standardize the terms of people&#039;s interpretations...and better to simply be leaving it up to the other person(s) to decide for themselves what THEY think the mark(s) is, rather than what many are going to disagree with (&quot;it&#039;s a scratch...no, that&#039;s a gouge...no it&#039;s a scrape...no it&#039;s too narrow...it&#039;s not wide, thin, deep enough to be...no metal was moved...oh yes I think there was&quot;...and on and on...with all respect for what you&#039;re trying to do). Whatever it is/isn&#039;t...it most certainly IS a <b>mark</b>...and you&#039;ll always be right.&quot;<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">The point is <b>not</b> to be right, the point is to be able to describe a characteristic.&nbsp; With just a little practice and study it becomes easy.&nbsp; Our mind is like a computer.&nbsp; Feed in lousy info (It&#039;s a mark, they are all marks.) and the result is:</span></i>&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":vomit:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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