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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 23504043, member: 112&quot;]Yeah, sometimes it does, particularly when the wear is significant. But there are a whole lot of time that it doesn&#039;t. A lot of the time a coin found in actual circulation will have nothing more than breaks in the luster (wear) on the high points and no chatter at all. In other words, that wear from the coin being in circulation, is no different at all from wear caused by roll friction, flip friction, cabinet friction, or any other kind of friction imparted to the coin even though the coin has never been in actual circulation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Which is precisely why the rule is and always has been - wear is wear - regardless of cause ! Except for the TPGs of course. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I disagree completely. For example, a coin graded MS60 or 61 - can and most of the time does have more chatter and contact marks on it to make the coin look like it came in 8th in an axe fight. But the coin has no wear, no breaks in the luster on it whatsoever - and thus it is correctly graded as MS. And much the same can be said about coins graded 62 through 65, they all can have chatter, contact marks, hairlines, etc - but no wear, no breaks in the luster ! </p><p><br /></p><p>And on the flip side of that - a coin can have light wear/breaks in the luster on the high points, or in the fields, or anywhere else on the coin, but have little to no chatter and or contact marks. And that cojn is graded AU58, and correctly so.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I would sat that the grading scale is absolutely sufficient.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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