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<p>[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 320950, member: 4552"]If you want to go by the Red Book which was probably the first book to show conditions of coins, 2008 edition, page 10, AU = About Uncirculated. Actually that book does not use the term Almost, only About. Note although both mean apparantly similar grades, many people would say the word about is very ambiguous and could mean anything. Whereas Almost truely indicates close to Uncirculated. </p><p>Nowadays due to so many law suites a word, term, phrase has to be very explicit. For example at an organization I know of that deals with Nuclear Power all approval stamps had to be recalled since they used the terem MAY PROCEED. That had to be changed to read COULD PROCEED. Note the slight difference where MAY gives permission but COULD leaves the final decision to the receiver of the document.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Just Carl, post: 320950, member: 4552"]If you want to go by the Red Book which was probably the first book to show conditions of coins, 2008 edition, page 10, AU = About Uncirculated. Actually that book does not use the term Almost, only About. Note although both mean apparantly similar grades, many people would say the word about is very ambiguous and could mean anything. Whereas Almost truely indicates close to Uncirculated. Nowadays due to so many law suites a word, term, phrase has to be very explicit. For example at an organization I know of that deals with Nuclear Power all approval stamps had to be recalled since they used the terem MAY PROCEED. That had to be changed to read COULD PROCEED. Note the slight difference where MAY gives permission but COULD leaves the final decision to the receiver of the document.[/QUOTE]
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