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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bruthajoe, post: 4016742, member: 108656&quot;]Good summary. Do you agree that woodie effect is a form of environmental damage without knowing the specific environment that may have influenced the appearance? </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; All coins are exposed to the environment upon creation. All coins start to suffer from environmental damage from that moment. We can not know the exact exposure of every coin but yet define certain features as environmental damage. Of course it&#039;s environmental damage but the environment can physically change the characteristics similarly but not as drastically as mechanical damage. For example... Erosion shapes the terrain into beautiful landscapes but has destroyed the pyramids of Giza. But the pyramids can still be admired. Damage on a coin is damage, no matter when or how it occurred. The difference is the effect of the damage and the quality of the characteristics it produces. Of course you can not always know the conditions of exposure to a coin to determine whether it is natural or artificial unless the damage has a unique fingerprint that can be linked to a particular condition under which the coin was exposed to. That only known conditions under which the majority of coins are exposed can usually only be traced back to it&#039;s creation, the mint. Every coin that leaves the mint in a bag is subject to the scrutiny of it&#039;s environment. Some more than others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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