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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikenoodle, post: 1430313, member: 307&quot;]I don&#039;t know if wear is punished as much as people put too much emphasis on the MS grade. It&#039;s true that an MS-60 coin is not attractive, nor is it at all pristine. They are the coins that are beat to death but technically haven&#039;t suffered their ill effects from circulation but rather from the post mint storage process. My point being that Mint state means &quot;as it left the Mint&quot; and that really doesn&#039;t speak to anything other than its condition as the coin left the Mint. You can beat the living crap out of a coin at the Mint and when it leaves it&#039;s Mint State as long as the luster isn&#039;t broken. I think it&#039;s more of a market bias than a fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many coins in AU-58 that I would much rather have than in MS-60 or 61. Or even 55 because they are by grade more attractive coins. I want an attractive coin and IMHO MS-60 and 61 are just not as attractive as most AU-58s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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