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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2672290, member: 24314&quot;]TypeCoin971793, posted: &quot;The toning may be muting it.&quot; <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">Technically, it does. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> However, in an effort not to leave out what I consider the <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)"> &quot;<b><span style="color: #ff0000">obvious</span></b></span>&quot; (cause of mint luster); I&#039;ll add more &quot;fluff&quot; and write that until the toning progresses to the darker stages, any underlying luster is still visible though in some cases it is muted.&nbsp; In a further effort not to leave any more &quot;common knowledge&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie104" alt=":yawn:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> out of this post: I&#039;m sure you must know that some shades of toning can make a coin with virtually no original surface look PL as the light is reflected from the toning layer rather than the dull metal! </span>&quot;And coin luster is not just &quot;reflection of light from a surface.&quot; It is the light being reflected...&quot; <b><i><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">FROM THE SURFACE</span></i></b> <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">as I originally posted (no matter what that surface looks like including the nonsense about a polished surface</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102)">). &quot;...</span>and scattered by microscopic ridges etched into the die by metal flow.&quot;&nbsp; <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">Perhaps you might have also considered a fresh - never used die - in your &quot;clarification.&quot;&nbsp; A die that is polished and has not formed microscopic ridges.&nbsp; Coins struck from that die will still have luster that was not caused by radial wear!&nbsp; </span>&quot;I am not seeing this very well in the photos.&quot;&nbsp; <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">As I wrote, there is mint luster all over the untoned areas of this coin.</span>&nbsp; &quot;This does not mean it isn&#039;t there.&quot;&nbsp; <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">Look again, it is.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">As for [USER=27832]@-jeffB[/USER]</span> - &quot;...was just poking fun at your ambiguity, which means you were the unhelpful one here.&quot;&nbsp; <span style="color: rgb(179, 0, 0)">Note that he has not defended the snarky <b>way</b> he posted something that could have been a very valid and educational question concerning &quot;luster&quot; both mint made and artificial.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I hope I answered that completely this time.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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