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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7883158, member: 24314&quot;]<span style="color: #660033">Kentucky, posted: &quot;I&#039;m guessing because it was circulated...in your pocket.&nbsp; Now, if you put it in a flip and carried it, it&#039;s still uncirculated...no wear (friction).&quot;</span></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Uncirculated has always been a misleading term.&nbsp; Coins CAN?AND DO circulate yet show absolutely no trade of friction wear.&nbsp; I have personally seen extreme examples of this obvious impossibility.&nbsp; </i></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=22331]@imrich[/USER]&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>Please cut the snark, get out of the courtroom, open your mind, and you just might learn something.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Coin grading is an art with two completely different approaches.&nbsp; You can describe a coin&#039;s actual and unique state of preservation (<b><span style="color: #b30000">true </span></b>technical grading that 99% of numismatists who have not been &quot;schooled&quot; don&#039;t understand) or you can appraise its value (modern commercial grading).&nbsp; No matter what anyone tells you, the two are completely different and not compatible.&nbsp; One choice is very subjective with more variables than I care to expand on here requiring years of experience and a knowledge of the day to day, year to year coin market (that most posting here INCLUDING ME don&#039;t have).&nbsp; The other is extremely easy to do with good eyesight and a knowledge of coin examination techniques.&nbsp; </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Unfortunately, it does not benefit dealers if 95% of collectors/dealers could agree on a grade for the same coin 95% of the time!&nbsp; They wish to keep grading complicated with wiggle room.&nbsp;&nbsp; </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>If coin&#039;s were graded strictly by what they are and dealers priced them based on that we would only be arguing on the price 95% of the time and not the grade!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>BTW, I&#039;m not a commercial coin grader and cannot ever be!&nbsp; I just grade them as I see them.&nbsp;&nbsp; </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>PS&nbsp; I&#039;ll bet most of the court decisions you cite were for blatant over grading and coin doctoring.&nbsp; Otherwise, name the case so I CAN LEARN SOMETHING from you.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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