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<p>[QUOTE="Nap, post: 2653906, member: 73099"]I know that, I was being more tongue-in-cheek suggesting that the terms are frequently applied to coins that have never spent a minute in a cabinet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cabinets were more popular in Europe than the US, so I always get a chuckle seeing US coins claiming to be "uncirculated with a touch of cabinet friction." Most of the time, the coins are just lightly circulated. I really don't think there were many 19th and 20th century American collectors who had furniture pieces for displaying rare coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since the popularity of slabs, those terms have largely fallen by the wayside for US coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also feel like the grand old collections of the 18th century, especially the valuable ones, have largely ended up in big institutional collections, and really are not circulating among collectors anymore. It's rare to be able to trace a provenance before 1800. The vast majority of the coins in my collection have been found relatively recently in the era of metal detecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Nap, post: 2653906, member: 73099"]I know that, I was being more tongue-in-cheek suggesting that the terms are frequently applied to coins that have never spent a minute in a cabinet. Cabinets were more popular in Europe than the US, so I always get a chuckle seeing US coins claiming to be "uncirculated with a touch of cabinet friction." Most of the time, the coins are just lightly circulated. I really don't think there were many 19th and 20th century American collectors who had furniture pieces for displaying rare coins. Since the popularity of slabs, those terms have largely fallen by the wayside for US coins. I also feel like the grand old collections of the 18th century, especially the valuable ones, have largely ended up in big institutional collections, and really are not circulating among collectors anymore. It's rare to be able to trace a provenance before 1800. The vast majority of the coins in my collection have been found relatively recently in the era of metal detecting.[/QUOTE]
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