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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1705690, member: 112"]This comment is one of the reasons why I was so against the idea of the TPGs putting problem coins in slabs to begin with. And why they refused to do it for 20 years. It's because too many people don't understand what AU Details, or VF Details, or MS Details, actually means. It's pretty simple. If it says Details or Genuine on the slab then the coin HAS NO GRADE, period. And it has no grade because a problem coin cannot be graded. But people get hung up on that AU, or VF, or whatever. They see those letters and they mean something to them. Problem is, they don't ever mean what they think they mean. They think they are getting an AU coin that has a problem. But they aren't, the coin is not AU. They are getting a problem coin that could be, stress could, AU - if it didn't have that problem. But it DOES have the problem so it is most definitely not AU. It is not any grade because a problem coin cannot be graded. That said, is your premise possible ? Yes, the idea of the premise is possible, that if enough wear is imparted to the coin that the problem will be worn away to the point that the problem is no longer detectable. But the idea that doing that will increase the value is flawed. If anything, doing it will decrease the value. So why bother ?[/QUOTE]