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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pocket Change, post: 420420, member: 8012&quot;]Very interesting question and I had been meaning to put a thread up about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few weeks ago, I was carefully going over my second set of well-circulated mercuries.&nbsp; They&#039;re in a cheap whitman folder and I was taking them out one by one and really doing an inspection to cull out the ones with obvious &quot;problems&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I pull out this 1942 merc in VF+ shape and the reeded edge just really caught on my thumb and forefinger.&nbsp; It&#039;s the first time I&#039;d ever really paid attention to the edge of a Mercury (probably because almost all of mine are pretty well-worn).</p><p><br /></p><p>That reeded edge appeared to be MS-69 to me -brand new. </p><p><br /></p><p>It got me to thinking that checking the condition of the reeded edge might be something you could check for coins that look suspicious (cleaned, whizzed, etc.)&nbsp; In other words,&nbsp; does the edge seem to be in the same great shape as the obverse and reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a thought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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