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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 8538253, member: 77814&quot;]No.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have Circulation wear to the coin.&nbsp; Circulation wear is Unlimited, only limited by the amount of time it is in circulation and what happens to it during that time frame.</p><p><br /></p><p>Circulation wear is totally different from the dies wearing while being made to stamp out little pieces of metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think of the manufacturing of a coin like the tread of a car.</p><p>As each coin is made the dies wear a little bit on each strike.</p><p>It&#039;s like a car tread.&nbsp; You drive it and the tread wear, may break, chunk out, etc and then you replace it with a new one.&nbsp; But during that time the tread gets thinner and thinner and spread out a bit.&nbsp; The same as a die ... the &quot;tight, crisp&quot; edges get worn and spread out.</p><p><br /></p><p>And circulation wear is people using the coin, it rubbing up and smashing against other surfaces.&nbsp; Getting scratched in a parking lot surface.&nbsp; People hammering it by accident or on purpose, etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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