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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1094128, member: 26302&quot;]You may be more of an expert, but I have a couple hundred large and half cents. I know copper ages differently, but when you tilt a cent you can still usually see where wear occurred and where it didn&#039;t. Same idea. The non-worn section may not be as &quot;lustrous&quot; as silver, but I could always see broken luster on XF cents indicating wear versus non wear. Of course, environmental damage would make this harder, as does the 1808-1816 series of dark metal cent planchets. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just my view, and on this coin I clearly see where the wear occurred and where it didn&#039;t, but it would be easier in hand. I will say I don&#039;t have any XF or higher early cents, just post 1800. Maybe early ones are different.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do appreciate your main point that lack of luster may not be against it, but I do think it helps on net grading and can still be used on coppers to determine wear.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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