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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2572590, member: 112"]No that is not key word, and no there is not any distinction. You need to understand that hits, dings, more properly called contact marks, do NOT constitute wear. Wear is an entirely different thing than contact marks. Yes it can. Like I said, even if a coin is in a cashiers drawer at the store - and that's definitely in the public's hands - that coin can still be, and often is, uncirculated - by definition ! And that's because there is only 1 definition for an uncirculated coin - and that is a coin with no wear. Period, end of story. That said, can a coin get actual wear on it without ever leaving the mint ? Yes, it absolutely can ! But that does not mean that it absolutely will get wear on it before it leaves the mint. And by the same token a coin can absolutely be in actual circulation, in other words it can be being used in commerce, and still not get any wear on it. That right there, what I just said above, is why there is only one definition for an uncirculated coin - a coin that has no wear. And this is not something new, this is as "old school" as it gets ! Now I'll grant you a lot of people just don't understand this. They just don't get how a coin "be in actual circulation" and yet still be uncirculated. That's because "uncirculated" is a condition, and "in circulation" is a state of existence. Two entirely and completely different things.[/QUOTE]