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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 6499033, member: 112&quot;]What you&#039;re reporting is pretty common actually. YES - you can pull a coin right out of a cash register, or your pocket, and that coin can be and often is graded as being MS, or uncirculated.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is because the sole determining factor of a coin being MS/uncirculated is a coin that has no wear on it. The very definition of MS/uncirculated is a coin that has no wear. If a coin has wear on it, it is not and cannot be MS/uncirculated. This has been the case since before the turn of the last century, not just this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem is the TPGs did away with that definition because it prevented them from grading coins as MS. And their customers wanted their customers wanted their coins graded MS. So they came up with their own definition, basically stating that only certain kinds of wear counted as being wear.</p><p><br /></p><p>The very idea of course is ridiculous. Wear is wear regardless of what causes it, or when or where it happened.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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