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What is the coin description "Has Some Handling" supposed to mean?
stman
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I see this a lot and more so lately. I have my own opinion on it. What is your opinion?
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Like " it has good honest wear" trying to make wear sound like a good thing.
"This coin is in very good condition with some handling and good honest wear"
Sounds like it is nice
But
"This coin has most of the details worn away"
Sounds not so nice
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That's a nice way of saying it's not mint, trying not to say anything bad about the item.
Like " it has good honest wear" trying to make wear sound like a good thing.
"This coin is in very good condition with some handling and good honest wear"
Sounds like it is nice
But
"This coin has most of the details worn away"
Sounds not so nice
Agree. Saying that a coin has "light wear" does not sound as good as saying it has "cabinet friction".
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
All those word gymnastics don't work for me. Oh, and IMO wear is wear..... no cabinet friction for me. Heh
If I see rub, I can say it is rub. I can't say how it received it for sure.
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an excuse for its current state from a dealer or auction house.
On a separate note I am an advocate of the theory that cabinet friction is something that can be explained logically as just that and when an ms coin is stored in a wood cabinet and slides upon opening of the cabinet one shouldn't be so hard on it to knock it far off its horse.
See, there you go again. Am I not entitled to my opinion without you coming into threads and telling me what I should and shouldn't do?
In the 80's cabinet friction was used in many descriptions .
To me it implied a super slider and it was actually wear but will still call the coin uncirculated, many times it was a coin with a known provenance where it had allows been labeled as an unc coin
Either way, it's a coin that I'd avoid.
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Here is a Gem 1806 quarter that "has some handling". A bit of "cabinet friction" can also be detected.
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Almost uncirculated= Some handling
Mint State + some handling = Not UNC and not BU
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