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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1628489, member: 19463&quot;]Thank you for the interesting link.&nbsp; On reading all this I am amazed that there can possibly be so many varieties and so many examples in so many states of preservation.&nbsp; As a collector of coins (ancient mostly) that circulated as legal tender I understand how we get coins in worn slick grades.&nbsp; What escapes me is how enough medals received the handling needed to make them aG.&nbsp; Were these popular enough as pocket pieces over a long enough span of time that they got honest wear in the same sense that we expect from a large cent?&nbsp; I would have thought that people who bought these in their day would have put them away in a drawer where they might expect to pick up a little handling over a period of years until they reached a time where people would wonder why grandpa had the thing.&nbsp; After all how many of you have regular contact with medals or anything your grandpa may have collected in his heyday?&nbsp; The linked listing makes it sound like owning such a medal must have been quite fashionable.&nbsp; The OP medal is a beauty and interesting but it is what I would expect to survive from such an issue having spent 200 years in a sock drawer rather than an equal time lost in a field or buried in a pot.&nbsp; I would have expected it less common to be found worn below VF than the other way around.&nbsp; Is this spread of wear states common in medals of this period?&nbsp; How many gentlemen carried how many medals in how many pockets for how many years?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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