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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2670168, member: 112&quot;]As a general rule, stress general, coins do not really lose any weight to speak of due to wear - or put another way, not enough to take them out of tolerance levels - until they reach the stage of VG grade or lower.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now some folks have hard time believing that something like that could be true. But it is. That&#039;s because the metal doesn&#039;t really get worn away and removed from the coin in the beginning and intermediate stages of wear, it gets squished down, flattened out - moved from one place on the coin to another place on the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take this coin for example, and it&#039;s gold which most think is much softer than other coin metals and thus more susceptible to wear - (which is not really true by the way). But most people do believe it to be true. Anyway, the coin -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]594361[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]594362[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now what do you think that coin would grade given that much wear ? I think everybody here is quite familiar with how much detail is supposed to be on that coin, and it&#039;s pretty obvious how much detail is NOT there. So what do you think it would grade ? Myself, I put it at no better than a F15.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now would you care to guess how much weight it lost at that point ?</p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;m not going to provide the answer right this minute, I&#039;m going to let you guess first <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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