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"Glad you are enjoying it...we have some really good threads on some topics here.  \n\n\n\n\n\tI'll use my specialty, Saint-Gaudens Double Eagles, as an example but it also applies really to any coin but especially larger ones with large fields.\n \n\n\n\tFrom an aesthetic viewpoint, a very nice AU-58 can look much better than an MS-61 or MS-62 which has lots of scuff marks, dings, or bag marks. The AU-58 might have a single or dual contact marks on high points as evidence of circulation or rub.  The MS-62 might be 100% uncirculated but have lots of distracting bag marks in the (large) fields.\n \n\n\n\tStrictly speaking, no matter how much bag wear and how many bag marks and dings a coin got...if it wasn't circulated, it's considered mint state.....wheras an AU coin can have the slightest wear on the high points but have really clean fields and very few bag marks or ding but is considered a lesser coin grade-wise.  \n \n"
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