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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2310617, member: 24314&quot;]Doug,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Send me your address in private Email [I also figured out how both of you are correct in the die polish thread].&nbsp; I will send you a beautiful toned CIRCULATED COIN without MINT luster.&nbsp; ALL my gray color METAL coins have a certain DULL LUSTER because the light reflects from their metal surface.&nbsp; Some even have TRACES of MINT LUSTER (from the radials on the dies they were struck with) in the tiny recesses of their letters. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Most of us here know what Mint luster is and how the term is used by dealers, online, and in a grading class.&nbsp; The important thing is to make the Newbies here (without all of our members skills) recognize that circulated, polished, cleaned, etched, etc coins have luster to;&nbsp; IT&#039;S JUST NOT MINT LUSTER - the thing we are trying to teach them to look for on original coins. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>PS&nbsp; As you know, even buffed coins can have SOME ORIGINAL MINT LUSTER that the buffing did not destroy![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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