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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Talespin, post: 687906, member: 20477&quot;]<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Hi,</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">I understand what a proof is, but I am having trouble with the uncirculateds and circulateds. I looked at the website for the US Mint and I saw rolls and bags of coins that you can buy but in there description they state that those coins are for circulation. What adds to my confusion is that I go to a coin dealer and tell him that I want, for example, an uncirculated James K. Polk dollar. He agrees to sell me one, and pulls it out of a plastic coin tube, hands it to me, and charges me $2.00. Now, I understand that uncirculated means that the coin has never been touched by humans hands or delicately handled, and circulated means that it has been touched and maybe even passed thru a coin slot on a machine, but where my confusion lies is how is an uncirculated coin that I buy from a dealer any different from one that I can get brand new, never been touched buy human hands from a bank besides the fact that I am paying $2.00 at a dealer and at a bank I just exchange a paper dollar for the presidential dollar. If the US Mint website only sells proofs and coins meant for circulation, where are the dealers getting the so-called uncirculated coins? Please help me out. Thank you in advance.</font></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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