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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1934578, member: 15309&quot;]Yes, you are the one who has no common sense and it is easy to prove.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please explain how a Saint Gaudens Double Eagle that has spent its entire existence in a sealed mint bag can have &quot;wear!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS does not call it wear.&nbsp; They call it &quot;luster breaks&quot; because they understand that it occurs due to friction between the coins while in storage.&nbsp; A concept that seems to completely elude you no matter how many times you are told.</p><p><br /></p><p>You seem to hold the ANA standards in such high esteem as if some numismatic deity wrote them.&nbsp; Has it ever occurred to you that the ANA rules that you covet with such zeal are wrong, and that the TPG standards have evolved to address a grading problem that the ANA rules do not?&nbsp; You say there are not exceptions, but you are quite obviously wrong, and so is the ANA.&nbsp; That said, I don&#039;t believe that the ANA standards actually say that.&nbsp; I don&#039;t own a copy of the ANA standards but I would be very interested to see what they have written about roll friction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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