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steve k<<< round corners are an easy way to tell if some trimming was done. Instead of nice smooth wear on the corner, it makes an abrupt angle where the trimming as done. >>>
Yes...often but not always. If a card when it was new received a ding of some sort and there are many, many types of dings, then along with that there is 50 to 100 years of handling the card and natural aging wear in a shoebox, drawer, closet, attic or basement environment, there could be an abrupt angle on an untrimmed card. Again...not often but sometimes. The key to spotting it is that the abrupt angle has to have basically equal looking wear throughout the entire angle as the other corners. Easy to notice when examining a card - not always easy and sometimes impossible to notice from a scan.