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Message:: [QUOTE="Kasia, post: 2968359, member: 31533"]Just to be clear. It did not have to get handled very much or in a bad way to get here. It simply had to have been handled a little or put in a way that it could rub against something. That is why uncirculated is not a grade based on no handling or not being in circulation at all, but is based on evidence of 'wear', which is essentially either metal being rubbed down or simply loss of surface metal in handling. The moment that you can definitely see that is when it becomes an AU, though some people like to pretend they don't see it or it is so light that it is not clear if it truly has happened yet. On your coin, it seems it has. There is no definitive way I know of to say how much 'handling' or movement a coin has to make against a table top/other coin/other place or against other coins in change drawers or wherever to get to the point it becomes apparent. But many coins you can pull from circulation are actually considered 'uncirculated'. This one may have been pulled by someone at that point and saved. Otherwise it certainly by now would have been much worse. Sometimes these coins which were saved in years past are put back in circulation, which is why you might find one in a bank roll. It would likely either be done by someone who no longer collects and doesn't see the point in trying to sell it or by someone else who came across it and put it in there, not knowing or caring if it had value.[/QUOTE]