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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1336986, member: 112&quot;]A couple of things here. While videos work well for trying to show the luster on a coin, they really don&#039;t work very well when trying to show cameo. Because of that, I don&#039;t think anybody can say if your coin is cameo or not. Pictures would be your best bet for that. </p><p><br /></p><p>The way you determine if a coin is cameo or deep cameo is by the amount of frost on the devices and the mirror finish of the fields. The frost is the more important of the two. It is also the least likely to be found. And it is a subjective call, there really is no way to measure it, you just have to know it when you see it. But for a coin to be considered cameo the frost has to be there on all of the devices, legends and numerals. In other words any raised part of the coin must have frost. If any portion of them are reflective (not frosted) then the coin is not cameo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Determining if a coin is Deep Cameo is a bit more difficult for to do that you have to consider the degree, the thickness if you will, of the frost. Again it is something that you just have to know when you see it. The best way I can explain it is like this. Frost on a coin is much like frost that we see in everyday life, like frost on the grass or frost on your windshield on a cold day. Pretty much everybody knows the difference between a light frost and a heavy frost. Sometimes you can scrape it off your windshield easily - that&#039;s a light frost. Other times you have to really work at it - that&#039;s a heavy frost. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, cameo and deep cameo is very similar. With a cameo coin the frost appears to be thin, almost like you can see through it in some places but not quite. Deep cameo is thick and uniform over all of the raised portions of the coin. A deep cameo coin will resemble a Proof in that regard.</p><p><br /></p><p>And both a cameo and deep cameo will show marked contrast when tilted just so in the light. The coin will appear to be black and white, with the mirrored fields being black and the raised devices being white. And again it is a matter of degree, a cameo will show moderate contrast while a deep cameo will show extreme contrast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Secondly, you&#039;re mixing things up a bit. You cannot determine cameo by measuring reflectivity. You only measure refectivity when you are trying to determine if a business strike coin is PL or DMPL.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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