On my way to do something else (isn't that the way the Internet usually works?), I found this video: http://coins.ha.com/itm/twenty-cent...cc-20c-ms66-pcgs-cac/a/1213-30338.s#360-video That led me to do a Google search, and I ended up on YouTube: I know that there is nothing like seeing it for real in person, but are these decent examples of how it is supposed to look? Are there better examples?
Yeah, that's what the cartwheel effect of luster looks like. But I want to comment on something else about that video. Please, PLEASE, don't anybody handle your coins with gloves on like the guy in that video is doing. Doing that will put hairlines on the coins. Hold coins by the edges, always by the edges, even if you have gloves on. But better yet, don't wear the gloves at all.
Yeah, he just scratched the bejeebers out of that coin. Actually, after watching a second time, they do not look very frosty do they? I wonder if his wonderful real morgans are whizzed? Most Morgans I have are frostier devices than that. I suppose worn dies could be to blame.
Yupp....that video is a "what not to do" in terms of the coin hobby. That coin may have cartwheel luster, but it is now a details coin, instead of MS. NEVER touch the surface of the obverse and reverse. Handle by the rim only.
