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<p>[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 5245886, member: 15309"]Because they differentiate between "circulation wear" and wear caused by coin to coin friction such as roll/stacking friction. So yes, a Saint with roll friction on the breast/knee is still uncirculated and can grade as high as MS67. For example:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F4%2F2%2F8%2F2%2F14282806%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F4%2F3%2F0%2F8%2F14308930%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>When the TPGs look for circulation wear, they typically look for some disturbance in the fields. In absence of field disturbance, slight high point wear is often viewed as coin to coin friction and the coin is graded as a mint state coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lehigh96, post: 5245886, member: 15309"]Because they differentiate between "circulation wear" and wear caused by coin to coin friction such as roll/stacking friction. So yes, a Saint with roll friction on the breast/knee is still uncirculated and can grade as high as MS67. For example: [IMG]https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F4%2F2%2F8%2F2%2F14282806%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D[/IMG] [IMG]https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F4%2F3%2F0%2F8%2F14308930%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D[/IMG] When the TPGs look for circulation wear, they typically look for some disturbance in the fields. In absence of field disturbance, slight high point wear is often viewed as coin to coin friction and the coin is graded as a mint state coin.[/QUOTE]
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