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Message:: [QUOTE="Insider, post: 2591049, member: 24314"]And watchmaking for that matter.  But let's not get DRAGGED into the weeds. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  Rather than discuss if burnishing and polishing are the same thing, let's just agree that the TREATMENT done to the dies or planchet when a coin is made can produce a different appearance.  A "Burnished" surface differs from a "Proof" or "Mint State" surface.  With experience, an informed collector can tell. Polished or not - the U.S. Mint makes the coins and refers to them as BURNISHED.  That's good enough for me and the TPGS's. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]