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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3514225, member: 46237&quot;]So this is more to the point of my thought exercise.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many here readily defend calling circulated coins <i>mint state</i> when we know a large number of examples have actually <i>acquired surface damage from circulating</i>? The defense for calling them MS is that you can&#039;t tell where the surface damage comes from.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet so many here object to calling apparently <i>uncirculated</i> coins mint state when they have high point rub with pristine fields. And the defense for calling them AU and not MS is that you can&#039;t tell where the rub (surface damage) comes from. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie20" alt=":banghead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Wear is not special. </b>Any surface damage (hits, hairlines, wear, etc.) acquired after the coin is issued from the mint is all the same.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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