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<p>[QUOTE="xtrmbrdr, post: 623542, member: 17193"]<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">Ok, so that I can be clear, cartwheel and luster mean the same thing? I thought cartwheel was where you can see the spoke-like effect emitting from the center of the coin to the edge of the coin, and luster was the "glossy-look" (for lack of a better term) of a coin. So from the above, if a coin has no cartwheel it has no luster and visa versa? Sorry for my densness but I've always seemed to use this terminology wrong, and would like to understand.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">I understand whizzing, although I don't totally understand how one would actually "move metal". And I couldn't find a definition for polishing in the glossaries I searched. But I assumed it was just using a cloth and some type of polish/chemical to give the coin a "glossy-look ", same process as polishing and/or waxing a car?</font></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="xtrmbrdr, post: 623542, member: 17193"][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Ok, so that I can be clear, cartwheel and luster mean the same thing? I thought cartwheel was where you can see the spoke-like effect emitting from the center of the coin to the edge of the coin, and luster was the "glossy-look" (for lack of a better term) of a coin. So from the above, if a coin has no cartwheel it has no luster and visa versa? Sorry for my densness but I've always seemed to use this terminology wrong, and would like to understand.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]I understand whizzing, although I don't totally understand how one would actually "move metal". And I couldn't find a definition for polishing in the glossaries I searched. But I assumed it was just using a cloth and some type of polish/chemical to give the coin a "glossy-look ", same process as polishing and/or waxing a car?[/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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