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<p>[QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 2051852, member: 19165"]Well, first I'll say this - if you found them in rolls, the odds are stacked strongly against you. Very rarely will you find a true Mint State coin in a roll. Also, almost all of the coins you find in rolls are (usually) there for a reason - because they are worth face value. Trying to find coins worth selling in rolls is very difficult - unless you are looking for varieties (RPM, DDO, DDR, etc), or unless you find silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the actual coins you have posted: the highpoints of many coins are easy to figure out (you don't necessarily need a book to show you where the wear will appear first). Human figures are the easiest - because they are round. Just look in the middle, and you'll generally get it pretty close.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the Bicentennial quarter, the places to look are going to be Washington's cheek and hairline, and the base of his neck. On the reverse, look at the drummers face, hat, arms, and drum. Wear will begin to appear as a slight discoloration, with breaks in the luster in these areas (an uncirculated coin should have luster on all points of the design - with a few exceptions, there should be no break in the luster on these high points). As wear progresses, you will see flattening on these high points.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pictures 1 and 3 very clearly show discoloration, luster breaks, and mild flattening on Washington's hairline. Picture 4 shows on Washington's cheek and the drummer's left arm. Picture 2 is harder to discern with your pictures - the overlit and off-white picture will tend to hide the markers we are looking for (note: many ebay sellers know this, and will intentionally take pictures like this to fool you). However, even on picture 2, if you look at the roll of Washington's hair, you will see some of the indications we are searching for.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know this was a long post, but distinguishing AU from UNC is very tricky. For a lot more discussion on the topic, I encourage you to read my book (I have several chapters talking about luster, wear, strike, and include a discussion of how to use them to tell AU from UNC).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="physics-fan3.14, post: 2051852, member: 19165"]Well, first I'll say this - if you found them in rolls, the odds are stacked strongly against you. Very rarely will you find a true Mint State coin in a roll. Also, almost all of the coins you find in rolls are (usually) there for a reason - because they are worth face value. Trying to find coins worth selling in rolls is very difficult - unless you are looking for varieties (RPM, DDO, DDR, etc), or unless you find silver. As for the actual coins you have posted: the highpoints of many coins are easy to figure out (you don't necessarily need a book to show you where the wear will appear first). Human figures are the easiest - because they are round. Just look in the middle, and you'll generally get it pretty close. On the Bicentennial quarter, the places to look are going to be Washington's cheek and hairline, and the base of his neck. On the reverse, look at the drummers face, hat, arms, and drum. Wear will begin to appear as a slight discoloration, with breaks in the luster in these areas (an uncirculated coin should have luster on all points of the design - with a few exceptions, there should be no break in the luster on these high points). As wear progresses, you will see flattening on these high points. Pictures 1 and 3 very clearly show discoloration, luster breaks, and mild flattening on Washington's hairline. Picture 4 shows on Washington's cheek and the drummer's left arm. Picture 2 is harder to discern with your pictures - the overlit and off-white picture will tend to hide the markers we are looking for (note: many ebay sellers know this, and will intentionally take pictures like this to fool you). However, even on picture 2, if you look at the roll of Washington's hair, you will see some of the indications we are searching for. I know this was a long post, but distinguishing AU from UNC is very tricky. For a lot more discussion on the topic, I encourage you to read my book (I have several chapters talking about luster, wear, strike, and include a discussion of how to use them to tell AU from UNC).[/QUOTE]
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