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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2303772, member: 1892&quot;]A coin loses Uncirculated status when humans handle it in the course of business. That&#039;s not complex; if it&#039;s circulated it ain&#039;t Uncirculated. Of course, some of this can happen before the coin shows any indication it did. That_does complicate things sometimes. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A coin loses Mint State status when it begins to show circulation wear or artifacts plainly associated with individual handling after Mint possession. There have been many times when I considered a coin circulated more for the nature of the marks on it than any apparent circulation. Another space for argument. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It takes intellectual gyrations of the dubious, pretzel-twisting type to disassociate the two, though; an Uncirculated coin is also Mint State. Some follicleslicing might be possible depending on how far downstream original Mint bags got, and how many people handled them in the interim. Once coins start getting hand-counted by people, before being released to the public (if it ever happened that way; they probably mostly got busted open from full bags and handed out as payroll or to bank tellers to get them circulating), something definable as &quot;wear&quot; can appear.</p><p><br /></p><p>But when a good cause case can be made for artifacts not discernible from wear to have appeared during the course of Mint possession, you have to question all of them. Not all &quot;friction&quot; AU&#039;s are as clearly circulated in-hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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