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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 24043, member: 708&quot;]I use both terms but not interchangably as they are very different.</p><p><br /></p><p>UNC - Is a coin that is not circulated, it may or may not have lustre depending upon how it was stored. There might be the odd bagmark but nothing major.</p><p><br /></p><p>BU - Is a UNC coin that has full lustre.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So a brown Lincoln cent would be UNC, Red/brown would be UNC 50% Lustre etc. and a red Lincoln would be BU.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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