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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;steve63, post: 2581200, member: 76463&quot;]I think I read somewhere that it takes about 20-30 years of continuous circulation to wear a coin down to poor condition.&nbsp; So any coin more than 30 years old that has a higher grade than that must have stopped circulating for some span of time.&nbsp; The problem here is that it&#039;s very hard to define &quot;stopped circulating&quot;.&nbsp; For years I put all my change into a coin drawer and there times when a few months or even years went by before I rolled and desposited them.&nbsp; Especially for the smaller change like pennies and nickels I think that is very common.&nbsp; So many coins go back and forth from &quot;the wild state&quot; to &quot;not actively circulating&quot; many times over.&nbsp; So it&#039;s really hard to define &quot;being in the wild&quot;.&nbsp; However when it comes to coins like buffaloes that probably get pulled out of circulation quickly once they pass through the hands of a collector, it&#039;s probably safe to say they have been &quot;out of the wild&quot; for the majority of their lifetime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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