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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2355669, member: 112&quot;]I think it might be worthwhile here to bring up another point regarding the look of luster. It&#039;s something that we&#039;ve discussed at length in the past, but it really doesn&#039;t come up all that often, and I think there&#039;s a lot of people that have never really noticed it. But once you do notice it, I think it helps with understanding luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what am I talking about ? I&#039;m talking about the different looks of luster on different coins. Take a half dollar for example, compare the luster on a Seated, Barber, a Frankie, and a Kennedy - all silver. On each and every one of those coins the luster looks different. But they&#039;re all half dollars and they&#039;re all silver. Same thing happens with all the other denominations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now some people question this idea, this concept. They might even claim it isn&#039;t so that they are all the same. But are they ? No they are not, they actually are all different. And you can easily see it if you take the time to really look. Now because there was disagreement with this concept one of our members took the time to take some high magnification photographs so you could actually see the flow lines and compare them. And sure enough they were all different on the different series of the same denominations.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what&#039;s the point ? The point is that understanding this helps you realize just how many different looks luster can have. And that helps us understand the differences in the looks of luster on coins of the same series. There are many different variables that determine the luster a give coin has. The design of the coin, the relief of the coin, the metal being used, the quality of the planchets, planchet preparation, die preparation, the strike pressure, the die alignment, the die spacing, the amount, or lack of, die wear, all of these things and more affect the luster of a given coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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