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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 299615, member: 112&quot;]It&#039;s pretty simple really - and you certainly don&#039;t have to take my word for it, you can ask any professional grader - but wear is caused by a coin being in circulation. Where as what is referred to as rub in today&#039;s vernacular, ( it used to be called cabinet friction or cabinet rub ), was something that happened to an MS coin while in someone&#039;s collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since most collectors used to keep their collections in a coin cabinet, that&#039;s where the name came from. And the cabinet friction, or rub, came about as a result of the coin moving slightly while it was held in this cabinet. Now some may argue that is merely a question of semantics, but it really isn&#039;t since the two things - wear &amp; rub -&nbsp; have very distinct and different causes. </p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom line is that professional graders, and that includes those in the ANA not just the TPG&#039;s, differentiate between the two. A coin with rub can be and is graded as MS while a coin with wear is not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course there is&nbsp; a littel more that goes with that - like how do you tell rub from wear ? Well since wear is a result of a coin being in circulation a coin with wear will also have other characteristics that are consistent with a coin being in circulation like marks, dings &amp; hairlines. While a coin with rub will not have these characteristics. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now someone will say that even MS coins can have marks &amp; hairlines. Yes that is true, but very few MS coins will have anywhere near as many of them as a circulated coin has, even an AU58 coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>That is about as good of an explanation as I can provide.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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