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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2825985, member: 112&quot;]It appears that at least some do not know or at the least do not understand why the definition of an uncirculated coin is so simple and straightforward. <b>An uncirculated coin is one that has no wear.</b> That&#039;s it, end of story, no other qualifiers or quantifiers. It absolutely does not matter where or how you find the coin, if it has no wear it is uncirclulated. If it does have wear, it is circulated.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said above, it doesn&#039;t matter where the coin is, and yes that includes the mint building itself. There are a great many coins, a great many of them, that get wear on them before they ever leave the mint ! </p><p><br /></p><p>And, from a purely technical point of view, for those to whom such things matter, from the moment that a coin, any coin, leaves the mint, it HAS been put into circulation - period.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the same token there are a great many coins that leave the mint and go into actual circulation that have no wear on them. </p><p><br /></p><p>All of these things are why the definition of uncirculated is what it is ! It is because there is no other qualifier or quantifier that actually works to be an accurate definition for uncirculated !</p><p><br /></p><p>And uncirculated coin is a coin that has no wear. </p><p><br /></p><p>And no, bag marks, contact marks, hits, dings, hairlines, and even small scratches ARE NOT wear. A coin with any or even all of these things can be and is correctly graded as uncirculated.</p><p><br /></p><p>And how exactly is wear defined ? Wear is defined as a break in the luster. It is also quite simple and straightforward. And there is no other definition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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