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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3339902, member: 112"]It makes perfect sense. I've tried to explain it many, many times by using this simple illustration - /\/\/\/\/\/\/ - to simulate what luster looks like. And if you view that illustration and imagine the light striking those angled lines, at various points from the top to the bottom of the angled lines, it then becomes easier to also understand that before the light ever reaches our eyes that at least some of it can bounce from one line to another, and only then be reflected back to our eyes. This is what produces the diffused reflection of light, the wider beam of light if you will, that we see when we view a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>You said it differently than I have many times in the past, but we are saying the same thing. It also explains why each type of coin has a different kind of luster than other coins. Because those lines are all different heights and widths on each type of coin. And we've seen that in all the pics that have been posted, including those of Proofs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 3339902, member: 112"]It makes perfect sense. I've tried to explain it many, many times by using this simple illustration - /\/\/\/\/\/\/ - to simulate what luster looks like. And if you view that illustration and imagine the light striking those angled lines, at various points from the top to the bottom of the angled lines, it then becomes easier to also understand that before the light ever reaches our eyes that at least some of it can bounce from one line to another, and only then be reflected back to our eyes. This is what produces the diffused reflection of light, the wider beam of light if you will, that we see when we view a coin. You said it differently than I have many times in the past, but we are saying the same thing. It also explains why each type of coin has a different kind of luster than other coins. Because those lines are all different heights and widths on each type of coin. And we've seen that in all the pics that have been posted, including those of Proofs.[/QUOTE]
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