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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2565256, member: 59677&quot;]Burnished is what the mint calls tumbling the planchets in drums with steel shot to make the surface ... well like it&#039;s been hit 1000s of times by little steel balls.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the coin is struck, some of that texture comes through to the fields of the coin. If it then tarnishes slightly (and a very light yellow is not uncommon) you have a desirable (to some) effect.</p><p><br /></p><p>But this isn&#039;t that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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