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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 6376760, member: 112&quot;]You&#039;re correct, bag marks are NOT considered wear. But what you&#039;re forgetting or not even thinking about is that when coins are in bags, and those bags are moved, every time the bags are moved, the coins slide around, move around inside the bag - against each other and against the inside of the bag. And that movement - DOES cause wear !</p><p><br /></p><p>The definition of wear is a break in the luster. And luster is very fragile. So any movement of the coins against anything else, like other coins or the inside of a bag, can cause a break in the luster. And once it does the coin has wear.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is quite common, for some coins at least, to get wear on them BEFORE they ever leave the mint ! How, why ? Because the coins are mover around a lot INSIDE the mint. They are moved around in the hopper as they come off the press, they are moved around when they are counted before bagging, they are moved around when they are bagged, and they are moved around every time that bag is moved again before they leave the mint and after they leave the mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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