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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;usmc60, post: 2581163, member: 76739&quot;]So they say the condition of the coin judges the fact if it&#039;s considered uncirculated or circulated. I kinda understand where the author of the discussion in the magazines was coming from. If I take the perspective that a coin is judged by its condition to determine if it was circulated or uncirculated. Then I would have to say 70% of the coins that I examined would be classified as uncirculated. But yet all the coins that I&#039;ve examined came right out of circulation. I don&#039;t know about you but you can see how one could get confused about circulated or uncirculated. If you really want to get confused&nbsp; start collecting coins. Then you&#039;ll learn words like grease/circulated/uncirculated and many many more. With as many definitions for those words even in NUMISMTIC terminology.And like I&#039;ve been saying a lot of people nowadays, really do not care about the proper terminology. Now if people really want to get serious about collecting. They will take the time to get confuse about all the different terminologies used in coin collecting. Had this discussion last week at breakfast. Generally the people I&#039;m discussing the issue with. Occasionally keep coins that they find that they like. I guess these are people that are not really into collecting. But yet in a small way they do collect. And everyone that I asked the question. Every one of them came back with a circulated coin is a coin that&#039;s in circulation. And I&#039;m sure plenty of the members out there have asked this question to their friends. And I don&#039;t mean the die hard collectors I mean the friends that occasionally pick up coins.You know this whole thing reminds me of something many years ago. I remember when I was told to put the garbage out for the garbageman the next day. But also many years ago garbageman was considered inappropriate. I can remember when that was changed to sanitation engineer. But even today most people still consider the people that pick up our garbage as garbageman. I guess my point is that people are gonna call things what they want to call them. Whether it be correct or incorrect they really don&#039;t care.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie24" alt=":blackalien:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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