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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7942250, member: 24314&quot;]</p><p><span style="color: #006600"> Randy&#039;s answer is good but could be a little more specific.&nbsp; </span></p><p><br /></p><p>Randy Abercrombie, posted: &quot;<span style="color: #b30000">The improperly cleaned coin shows </span><b><span style="color: #006600">[an impairment to all or much of its ORIGINAL MINT]</span></b><span style="color: #b30000"> no luster. </span>&quot;Luster is difficult to show in photos but the Morgan <span style="color: #000000">does appear to show very nice luster…<i>..</i></span> Best way I can tell you to see luster is get a brand new quarter and take it out in the sunlight. Tilt it around a bit and you can see sunlight reflecting off the radial lines in the fields of the new quarter. Those radial lines are flow lines where the metal moved when the coin was struck. They give a coin life. When a coin is improperly cleaned, the luster is disturbed or removed and the coin then looks lifeless….. Once you discover the luster, that becomes the first thing your eye will see when you view a coin.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #006600">IMO, the cheek of the dollar does not look original (change of color) anymore.&nbsp; With just an image it is hard to tell what caused it.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>love old coins, posted: &quot;The lighting in my pictures is a problem...both the Franklin and the Morgan have <span style="color: #b30000">TONS of luster</span> when seen in hand...hard to show in pics though. That&#039;s one of the reasons we thought they&#039;d been cleaned.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><b>AU</b> coins can have </span><span style="color: #b30000">TONS of original Mint luster. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0)">The coins in your page show nice &quot;Cartwheel&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> so you know what it is w/o going outside.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #006600">Finally, burn this <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> into your thinking:&nbsp; <b>LUSTER is the REFLECTION of LIGHT from a SURFACE!&nbsp; &quot;Mint luster&quot; </b>applies to coins.&nbsp; Cleaned or polished coins have luster;<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> however, it is not original Mint luster. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #006600">BTW, the scratch damage <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> on the Franklin makes it a &quot;cull&quot; to be valued for its silver.</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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