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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 2572010, member: 68&quot;]Think of &quot;uncirculated&quot; as grade rather than a condition.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A coin as struck normally has a nice even shiny luster all over it.&nbsp; Coins wear from the highest points of the design down so as long as this luster is intact on the highest points the coin is in the grade of &quot;uncirculated&quot; even if it somehow had been in the condition of circulating for many years.&nbsp; Perhaps everyone handled it carefully by the edges or it circulated in a plastic capsule its grade is still &quot;uncurculated&quot; and nothing but wear will change the grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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