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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1868303, member: 112&quot;]Rusty - </p><p><br /></p><p>With the exception of the matte and satin Proofs, all Proof coins have cartwheel luster. No they don&#039;t like what you see when look at a Morgan, or Peace, or a Frankie, or a Lincoln, or anything else. But none of those look like the others either. They all have their own unique kind of cartwheel luster, every type of coin does. But people think that because they (Proofs) don&#039;t look like a Morgan or whatever that they don&#039;t have cartwheel luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m going to use greatly exaggerated numbers to try and explain it. Let&#039;s say that when you look at an MS Morgan and roll it under the light that the band of light, the cartwheel effect you see is 3 inches wide. But when you roll a Proof Morgan under the light that band that you see is only 1/8 of an inch wide. But it is still there.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s what happens with Proofs, the band of light that you see from a Proof is there but it is much, much,&nbsp; narrower and more focused than the band that you see from a business strike. When you roll a Proof that band looks more like just a glint, a tiny, thin reflection that just catches your eye. And that&#039;s because it is a tiny, thin band of reflection. And it is so thin because of the highly reflective surface of the coin. The higher the degree of reflection the thinner the band of light will be. But it is always there because it has to be there because the flow lines are there. But the flow lines on a Proof are much smaller, finer, thinner, and more highly reflective than those found on a business strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another way to think of it is like a Mag-Light flashlight. Just about everybody is familiar with them. If you turn the head of the flashlight one way you get a wide beam of light. Turn it the other way and you get a narrow, focused beam of light. That&#039;s the because the focal point of the reflected light is changed. Same thing happens with Proof coins. The focal point of light being reflected from the surface of the coin is much narrower, thinner, than that from a business strike.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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