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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 6565217, member: 112&quot;]None at all. Rub is nothing more than a common usage term that came into use because &quot;it sounds better&quot; than saying light wear - which is exactly what rub is, it&#039;s nothing more than light wear. But wear is wear, slight or not. Wear is like pregnant, you either are or you&#039;re not, there&#039;s no such thing as almost, or maybe. It&#039;s either there or it isn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not only possible possible for only 1 high point to have wear, it&#039;s even somewhat common, particularly on accurately graded AU58 coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>At the same time you need to understand something else - wear does not always first appear on the high points of a coin. It is extremely common for the first traces of wear to be in the fields of a coin - the very lowest point of the coin. The first traces of wear can appear anywhere on the coin, from high point to low point and everyplace in between. </p><p><br /></p><p>All anyone needs to do to realize that is true is think about it for a minute. If a coin is anywhere, in a sealed bag, in a cash drawer, in somebody&#039;s pocket, a change purse, literally anywhere - that coin is not laid perfectly flat against a surface. It can be at any angle or position you can imagine and the contact with whatever surface can be at any point on that coin. And yes this even applies to coins in rolls because who knows what happened to that coin, what positions it could have been put in before it was put into that roll. And we always have to remember that wear not only can be but often is imparted to a coin by other coins ! It&#039;s arguably the single most common cause of wear. Which is why wear can appear at any point on the coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, given all of this, if this grader is surmising, what exactly is he surmising ? And not only that, how is it even possible that he can surmise anything at all ? </p><p><br /></p><p>All of this is precisely why wear is wear - no matter what - because that&#039;s all it can be. Anything else is simply ignoring the fact that it is present.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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