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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 607, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;d have to disagree with you laz. BU is a generic term only - meaning as I&#039;m sure you know - Brilliant Uncirculated. Yes - you can have a BU coin that is weakly struck. But no - BU has absolutely nothing to do with a coins grade. What&#039;s more - for a coin to be classified as BU - it has no wear at all. That is what uncirculated means. </p><p><br /></p><p>But strike on the other hand is one of the primary grading criteria used by all of the grading services - the ANA - every coin dealer I ever met - every coin collector I ever met - and every professional numismatist I ever even heard of.</p><p><br /></p><p>And there are 11 seperate grades of uncirculated - not just 1. And none of these 11 grades can show any wear at all. And this is where strike quality comes into the picture. So yes - strike matters a great deal when grading a coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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