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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dimeguy, post: 987503, member: 19855&quot;]So, tomorrow I&#039;m going to the coin dealer to practice my pickiness of selecting a Franklin or two. In looking through my collections I&#039;m working on tonight I decided to look at the Prez and Sac dollars. Then a thought crossed my mind, and I figure it would be wise for me to know of the possibility: Can a person distinguish a bag mark from an uncirculated coin vs a contact mark from a newly circulated one? If not, I guess the distinction of &quot;uncirculated&quot; may have a biased meaning reserved for those with very few contact marks (luster and strike aside-just looking strictly at the term circulated vs uncirculated and not the grade). And, just so we are on the same page, I am viewing a contact mark as generally anything causing a coin to recieve a mark generally caused by coins hitting other coins (as in pockets) or from coin hitting a foreign substance (dropped on cement for example). Bag marks are anything from minting marks, bag friction, or marks from same demonination in distribution bag. (Even though, I think technically a bag mark is a contact mark, but I didn&#039;t know what to call those marks occuring during circulation). If I had to guess, there is no way to tell, even in circulated coins, what marks were a result of initial contact vs circulation, yes?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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