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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2444699, member: 24314&quot;]IMO, you and I WERE discussing an extremely important part of grading not making mountains out of anthills! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>if a coin has full original luster, its past history has no bearing on its Mint State condition.&nbsp; A grading seminar instructor that was once a dealer explained this FACT using some experiences in his past that I cannot forget.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. He opened a bank wrapped roll of BU Buffalo nickels.&nbsp; As soon as the roll was examined, several of the coins COULD NOT BE graded Unc by his aand the ANA&#039;s strict definition as they had &quot;roll friction.&quot;&nbsp; Others in the same roll were FMS gems with no sign of friction.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. A gold dollar was picked out of an old lady&#039;s black change purse.&nbsp; It was full of junk coins, lint, dirt, debris and as soon as that OBVIOUSLY CIRCULATED coin was removed from the pile it was a FLAWLESS GEM - no hairlines, no friction, and no marks (using a stereo scope to examine it)!&nbsp; He added that the beginning collector he sold it to showed the coin to several other dealers in the city.&nbsp; A week later, when the STUPID IDIOT returned it to him for a refund, it had been reduced to a hairlined AU-58! </p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, these two cases illustrate the point I am trying to get you to agree with.&nbsp; A coin&#039;s history cannot be determined.&nbsp; Its STATE OF PRESERVATION can. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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