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Message:: [QUOTE="GoldFinger1969, post: 2101658, member: 73489"]I disagree. A bunch of gold coins going straight from the press to a bag means you bounce around infrequently against other new coins. The bag might be moved weekly or monthly or whatever. That is nothing -- and this is likely the thinking behind the original distinction as Lehigh references the TPGs difference between the 2 'wears' -- compared to bouncing around in a pocket next to keys....going to a soda jerk to buy lunch and then jingling around inside a cash register...off to a department store....then a bank....then a vending machine...then repeating every few days or weeks. I understand the simplicity of saying 'wear = wear' but it seems to me that the TPGs understood that 99% of circulation wear would be worse/more severe than that from uncirculated wear from the press to a bag to a bank or collector or numismatist.  I think if this was as egregious as some here believe that some of the great numismatists like Bowers, Akers, etc....would have long spoken up. I also think that since most of the ANA folks who wrote these rules up are still alive, someone should ask them once and for all what they meant. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]