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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1943048, member: 112"]And nobody is denying that. The only thing being denied is by you, the TPGs, and others who agree with them, that wear caused by this or that is not really wear at all. Or that it just doesn't count, because somehow it is different than wear caused by a coin being in circulation. And I'm sorry, but that is just ridiculous. It's laughable it's so ridiculous. </p><p><br /></p><p>The perfect example of just how ridiculous it is, is the counter to the exact same situation. For example, you can pull a coin directly from the cash drawer at a grocery store. That coin is indisputably <u>in actual circulation</u>. But as long as that coin has no signs of wear on it, you can send that coin in the TPGs and that coin will be slabbed as MS every single time.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the very idea of the TPGs that the only thing that can make a coin not be MS is for that coin to have been in actual circulation - well it just doesn't hold water. Because a coin <u>can be in actual circulation</u> and still be MS. And that is just a cold hard fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wear is wear. There are no exceptions, there are no acceptable causes of wear. Any coin that has wear on it cannot be MS by definition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1943048, member: 112"]And nobody is denying that. The only thing being denied is by you, the TPGs, and others who agree with them, that wear caused by this or that is not really wear at all. Or that it just doesn't count, because somehow it is different than wear caused by a coin being in circulation. And I'm sorry, but that is just ridiculous. It's laughable it's so ridiculous. The perfect example of just how ridiculous it is, is the counter to the exact same situation. For example, you can pull a coin directly from the cash drawer at a grocery store. That coin is indisputably [U]in actual circulation[/U]. But as long as that coin has no signs of wear on it, you can send that coin in the TPGs and that coin will be slabbed as MS every single time. So the very idea of the TPGs that the only thing that can make a coin not be MS is for that coin to have been in actual circulation - well it just doesn't hold water. Because a coin [U]can be in actual circulation[/U] and still be MS. And that is just a cold hard fact. Wear is wear. There are no exceptions, there are no acceptable causes of wear. Any coin that has wear on it cannot be MS by definition.[/QUOTE]
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