remember the coins i orders from littleton if you dont it was a 45 con set of 50 states and the 04-06 jefferson nickles they are all uncirculated....but the jeffersons are all in on bag:headbang: ARE YOU KIDDING ME is there any way i can make these ore protectd yet still keep them as uncirculated?
my dad ordered from littleton a few years ago and got the 1999-2004 state quarters. they came in a small plastic bag and the coins hit each other everytime you would move the bag. i went ahead and opened my bag and put the coins in an album. and i was missing one state quarter but they made up for it by putting another tenessee quarter in. so there was an extra tenessee quarter and the coins had bag marks on them. i'll never buy anything from littleton again because of their poor customer service and packaging. if i were you i would take those nickels out of the bag and put them in 2X2s. littleton overcharges people so don't fall into their tricks. :headbang:
actually, the CS rep I talked was very polite and told me why they have them in bags in all but I asked her why they had 41 coins in a tube and 4 in bags she said that they took them out, but they used cotton gloves so they are uncirculated:rolling: ok....Im VERY stupid still when it comes to coins but I'm an former experienced card collector and when I did collect if you had something uncirculated and took it out whether you used gloves or not it was no longer uncirculated...and it was like this for all 8 years I collected which brings up anther thought....if they can take the quarters out and put them in a tube....they couldn't better protect my nickles?....
Uncirulated means that it doesn't have wear---you can pull a coin out of change and it would grade UNC. I would suggest buying a few books on grading....Photograde and The ANA Grading Guide are both great books. While I know it might sound odd, that is how the grading works---You can get rolls at the bank, open the roll and they are still all UNC. Speedy
UNC threw me for a loop too. I just assume that meant - totally awesome, pristine, etc. Turns out, it just means that no one has been carrying it around in their pocket. It can have dings and chips and scratches and still be called UNC. Always best to buy things when you can hold them in your hand.
if thats how it works....these difenitly wont grade UNC... every nickle has a bad chip or dent in it...
But nicks, and bag marks don't make it circulated. The ONLY way to make a coin circulated is when the coin shows wear. While it doesn't have to get this wear from being in circulation it mostly does. Nicks and bag marks mostly happen while the coin is being...minted, bagged, shipped, rolled, and then sent to the banks. Speedy
Nope....you can have a UNC coin with a fingerprint (NOTE--It might be graded a low MS60..but it is still UNC)...most of the time when you are talking about a toned coin...it is UNC. Coloring...I'm not sure what you mean there...dirt...most of the time when a coin has dirt is has been in circulation...but no that doesn't mean it is circulated. As I said before---when a coin shows wear, it is downgraded from MS to AU, or lower. Like I said---buy those books! But while you are waiting on those....here is a free one! http://www.coingrading.com/ Speeyd
Good for you! Buying books is one of the best things you can do! Unless that is....you can read them free like the one in the link I posted Speedy
Yep... uncirculated is a condition, not a history. It's wear, not necessarily circulation, that causes a coin to grade less than unicrculated (which in grading terms means anything from MS-60 to MS-70).
Hey Stainless you said you bought a book on american silver dollars, what is the title of that book? Thanks Jim
It's called "What Every Silver Dollar Buyer Should know" by Steve Ivy its not what I thought it would be but it's still helpful
Cool, thanks man, Ill hit up the bookstore and check it out before I buy it. Hope they have a copy! Appreciate it man! Jim
