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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 2051852, member: 19165&quot;]Well, first I&#039;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&#039;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&#039;ll generally get it pretty close.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the Bicentennial quarter, the places to look are going to be Washington&#039;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&#039;s hairline. Picture 4 shows on Washington&#039;s cheek and the drummer&#039;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&#039;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>

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