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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2591643, member: 112&quot;]Yes it does, but not in the way people might think. About the only thing that polishing (burnishing) the blanks does is to remove any tiny imperfections.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well yes, but not exactly. As I said above polishing the blanks removes any tiny imperfections, which has the net result of a blank that doesn&#039;t have anything to be obliterated. What it does have is a different look, than that of unpolished blanks, as a result of the polishing. And, yes that look is obliterated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now here&#039;s the thing, some people apparently think that it is the polishing of the blanks that causes the &quot;burnished&quot; ASEs to end up looking the way they do - to have a different appearance than their counterparts. But that is not the case. It is not the polishing of the blanks that results in the different appearance, it is the way the dies for the coins are prepared differently, the different surface finished applied to the burnished coin dies that causes the finished coins to look different.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s kind of like it is with Chris&#039;s avatar coin, the satin finish Kennedy, or the satin finish Mint Sets - or even the different look of Peace dollars from Morgans. In all of those cases the coins &quot;look&quot; the way they do because of the way the dies were prepared. Not because of the way the blanks were prepared. In every one of those cases the blanks didn&#039;t even receive any special preparation. And yet they look very different than normal coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yes Mike your comment is correct, in essence.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, why then did the mint choose to call these coins &quot;burnished&quot; ? Well, they had to have a name, they had to call them something. And like I said originally, because it&#039;s nothing more than an advertising gimmick to get people to buy more coins. &quot;Burnished&quot; is merely the name they choose to apply to them. But polishing the planchets has nothing to do with the finished appearance of the coins, other than that some of them might not have a tiny imperfection they otherwise might have had had the blanks not been polished.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing to think about is Proof coins. They have a very distinctive &quot;look&quot; too. Proof coin blanks are also polished. And that removes any tiny imperfections from them, and that is the only purpose their polishing serves. It is the high polishing of the Proof dies, and being struck more than once, that makes Proof coins look the way they look. Not the polishing of the blanks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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