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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2297147, member: 112&quot;]While I agree with part of the idea you&#039;re expressing, I disagree with other parts. I say that because unless the metal of the planchet actually touches the die and flows across it - there is no luster created. Metal flow is what creates luster. So of course a weakly struck area looks different. But that is because there is no luster in a weakly struck area.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I just flat out disagree with that, and so do the TPGs. Even they don&#039;t try to claim that. Their claim is that wear from roll friction, album friction, etc simply does not count as wear. They say and I quote - <i>Though a coin may have slight friction on its highest points, it may never have been in circulation, so technically speaking it is uncirculated.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Of course the obvious flaw in that statement is - <i>it <u>may never</u> have been in circulation, </i>- in other words maybe it was never in circulation, and maybe it was in circulation, but we don&#039;t know because the two don&#039;t look any different from each other, so we&#039;ll just guess and choose the first option instead of the second because that allows us to give the coin a higher grade and make our customers happy !</p><p><br /></p><p>But there is no difference whatsoever - wear is wear. And at each various stage of progression it all looks the same regardless of how it occurs. Wear from roll friction, stacking, album friction, etc, and wear from being in actual circulation - all looks the same. </p><p><br /></p><p>And anybody who doesn&#039;t believe that - can easily test it for themselves.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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