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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jtlee321, post: 3112846, member: 73983&quot;]The argument of not being able to take the coin in the OP to a store and spend it is weak.&nbsp; First of all let&#039;s just pretend this is a modern clad dime.&nbsp; Somebody just received it somehow, they will instantly recognize what it is supposed to be and that it is special.&nbsp; They won&#039;t attempt to spend it, they will save it.&nbsp; If the ding dong was dim enough to try to spend it, most likely a vast majority of the clerks would recognize it as something different.&nbsp; They would accept it as a dime and then trade a dime from their pocket and save the special piece.&nbsp; It&#039;s done with anything that is out of the ordinary and recognizable for what it should be.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin in the OP meets the technical requirements for a coin, and I would argue that it could be spendable.&nbsp; Will every clerk accept it?&nbsp; No, but there are a lot that would.&nbsp; Just watch a clerk when you hand them a half dollar or an Ike dollar a lot of them will end up buying it from the register because its different.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the subject of nails, sandpaper and waffled coins, no those are not coins. But can they be graded?&nbsp; Why not?&nbsp; The current grading scale is not just for coins.&nbsp; TPG&#039;s currently grade, tokens, so called dollars and medals.&nbsp; None of which are coins, yet they are still graded.&nbsp; The point of grading is ranking it&#039;s condition on a scale based on how it would have came out of the press that struck it to how it is now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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