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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2590738, member: 112&quot;]If it has a W mint mark then yes it is one of the burnished coins. Here&#039;s a picture of one of the regular bullion coins that does not have the W - </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.usacoinbook.com/image/w600-h600/us-coins/2007-w-bullion-american-silver-eagle.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>And yes the burnished coins have distinctly different look. It is not one that is easily recognizable in pictures, but it in hand you&#039;d see it right off, especially if looking at the coins side by side. </p><p><br /></p><p>What some people don&#039;t realize is that &quot;burnished&quot; is just a fancy word for polished. But of course the mint wouldn&#039;t use that word because of its negative connotation in numismatics.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the end, the whole idea is nothing more than an advertising gimmick, something to give the set collectors a reason to have to buy another coin and increase mint sales. The mint is quite good at doing this, sometimes they change the coins and sometimes they just change the packaging and name of the set - anything to get people to buy them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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