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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 3522768, member: 46237&quot;]I didn&#039;t say wear wasn&#039;t different. I said it wasn&#039;t&nbsp; special. Other collectibles markets don&#039;t distinguish between wear and tear. It&#039;s all just conditions that degrade the item.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every answer I get here to this reads as, it&#039;s special because it&#039;s special. It doesn&#039;t count against the coin because we say so. I&#039;ve already addressed this. Wear is just a well understood problem that negatively affects value in a predictable way. A coin with the problem of wear to a VG level has a more severe surface problem than an uncirculated coin with a scratch. Wear isn&#039;t special just because we say it is so. That is an artificial distinction.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes exactly. I&#039;ve pointed out many times that it is two scales. It doesn&#039;t work. The purpose of the scale today, and the original purpose of the scale itself, was to establish value. When you start by identifying if the coin is mint state, you&#039;ve already gone wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>AMD as for mint state representing the state a coin could have come from the mint; it&#039;s also hogwash. There are tons of MS60 and MS61 coins that no experienced numismatist would consider to be in a state that could possibly have come from the mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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