1883-CC Morgan

Jim, the degree to which light surface marks on a coin show up in an image is highly variable and depends on the imaging techniques employed, e.g., scan or photo, lighting, instrument settings, anomalies on the image-maker's screen/cover, and software utilized. It's hard to make generalities on this, but suffice it to state that surface marks tend to be exaggerated by the imaging process.

These imaging marks can be Photoshopped away, i.e., made to disappear through image manipulation to the degree a badly scarred coin can be made to look MS-70. However, any such image manipulation will give more of a false impression of a coin than it will to make the imperfections go away. An example of a coin which has perhaps been a little too Photoshopped:
http://cgi.ebay.com/1879-O-PL-MORGA...99_W0QQitemZ170013052660QQihZ007QQcategoryZ39465QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem