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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SchwaVB57, post: 2824953, member: 84518&quot;]When coins are sent for grading to PCGS, NGC, or the other companies, they grade the coin by supposed standards based on the experts experience. They have no idea if the coin was in your pocket, it came from a mint roll, or sat in a jar on the dresser for 100 years.</p><p>Technically, if it came from your pocket you know it was circulated; YES! However, the industry and collectors want the best available coin for their collection. So a coin from circulation can be a Gem Uncirculated or Good, depending on the condition at the time that it is graded per hobby tradition.</p><p>If only coins from mint sets or purchased directly from the government&#039;s mints are uncirculated, the whole coin collecting hobby will be turned inside out and a lot of tradition will be reversed; because once the coin left the mint in bags or rolls to banks or businesses it is technically circulated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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