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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3186703, member: 112&quot;]There is no way of knowing for certain how much wear the previous coin may have had or not had. But it is a reasonable assumption that it had at least some wear, and maybe a lot.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes that is correct. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Planchet quality is and should always be a factor of consideration, one of the grading criteria in other words, when grading any coin. To put it another way it&#039;s kind of like the old saying - you can&#039;t make a silk purse out of a sow&#039;s ear. With coins, if the planchet is of poor or very poor quality you would be truly hard pressed to make a high quality coin out of it. I won&#039;t say it&#039;s impossible but is extremely unlikely !</p><p><br /></p><p>Your implied question of - is that coin you pictured one of the exceptions when it comes to grading ? To be honest I don&#039;t know if it is or not. But I would say that given the situation in which it was made - it could be. I mean you have to consider that here we are at the World&#039;s Fair and somebody has a press set up in the Canadian Court - and they are striking coins, using whatever they can for planchets. So it stands to reason that high quality coins are simply not going to be produced. They are minting tokens, momentoes if you will and their only interest is in plopping them out for somebody to buy for that reason. Given that, yeah, leniency in grading should be given - in my opinion anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>But is that coin an AU50 - not by any definition in my opinion ! There&#039;s leniency and then there&#039;s being ridiculous - and that grade is ridiculous. And no it doesn&#039;t matter a whit what was used as a planchet ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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