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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 987700, member: 112&quot;]A couple of things here. First of all, all coins were shipped from the mint in bags, always were and still are. It used to be the bags held $1,000 worth of coins - regardless of denomination. Today the bags are so big it requires a forklift to move them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now there are many things that can cause a mark on a coin and a whole lot of them happen before the coin ever leaves the mint. But it doesn&#039;t matter what causes the mark or where it happens. Marks made on the coin inside the mint building are just as detracting as marks made at the grocery store, in your pocket or on the sidewalk.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that right there is why the only thing that separates an uncirculated coin from a circulated coin is wear. Not marks, wear on the metal itself. A coin can have 500 contact marks, both severe and light, and still be unc. But one little touch of wear and it&#039;s a circ coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that&#039;s why you can get uncirculated coins out of your pocket change - because wear is the determining factor and nothing else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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