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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 4685169, member: 112&quot;]They were not.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They were, but there&#039;s a good bit more to it than that. The people who sorted the coins, knew next to nothing about coins. This is confirmed by the fact that they couldn&#039;t even tell uncirculated from circulated. Which is in turn confirmed by the fact they commonly placed circ coins in unc holders, and unc coins in circ holders.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I used the term &quot;messed with&quot; because what you are calling abrasions - they are scratches, put there by human hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ya see, what a lot of folks don&#039;t realize is that many of the GSA coins were in circulation prior to their being bagged up and stored at the mint. Some of the coins that ended up being in the GSA hoard had never left the mint, but many others had. And they ended up back at the mint because they were sent to mint by banks, who had bagged up their excess silver dollars, coins they didn&#039;t want and had no use for, and returned them to the mint. This was common practice back then. And those bags were a mix of circ coins and unc coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This particular coin with the scratches, was obviously one of those circ coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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