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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Amanda Varner, post: 1864087, member: 59002&quot;]Those are all bag and/or contact marks ... </p><p><br /></p><p>the short version is, after a coin is struck it bounces down a little ramp and into a giant bin with 10,000 other coins.&nbsp; Then they&#039;re shuffled along and thrown into a bag together, where they rattled around on trains/horse drawn carriages/whatever to their destinations, smacking and clacking against eachother the whole time.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, a coin can be <i>uncirculated</i> -- meaning it was never passed from one hand to another in commerce, heck it may not have ever been touched by a human hand -- and still have a ton of those marks on it that it acquired on its journey from point A to point B.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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