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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2487674, member: 27832&quot;](raises hand)</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t help wondering whether today&#039;s obsession with &quot;problem-free slabbed CACed examples&quot; will look silly a few decades down the road.</p><p><br /></p><p>As it stands now, a coin rubbing against a cabinet or banging against other coins in a roll or bag doesn&#039;t sustain &quot;wear&quot;, or at least not &quot;wear&quot; that bars it from MS status. Sure, it&#039;s sustained marks, dings, and scuffs, but those could&#039;ve come from the Mint, or from a Mint bag, or from a <i>well-meaning</i> collector&#039;s hands. None of those, apparently, count as &quot;wear&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin rubbing against a few thousand countertops or pocket liners sustains &quot;good, honest wear&quot;, and can be graded. If it sits out in the elements and develops an oxide coating, that&#039;s &quot;patina&quot;, and again doesn&#039;t bar it from receiving a grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if any one of the people imparting &quot;honest wear&quot; to that coin slides it across a <i>gritty</i> countertop, or drops it to a hard floor, or bonks it against the end of a staple, it&#039;s instantly &quot;damaged&quot;, <i>ruined</i>, beneath the consideration of <i>Serious</i> Numismatists.</p><p><br /></p><p>Doesn&#039;t <i>anyone</i> else find this just the slightest bit, well, <i>arbitrary</i>? Even, perhaps, &quot;silly&quot;?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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