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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael Scarn, post: 3512775, member: 94715&quot;]I picked up 2 new items at CSNS last week.&nbsp; One was a so-so 1923 Peace $ to start my long planned for MS set of that series.&nbsp; For the second piece, I broke two of my personal collecting &quot;rules&quot;: (1) Don&#039;t buy coins that are not currently part of a set you are looking to build and (2) Don&#039;t buy coins from series that you haven&#039;t already thoroughly researched.</p><p><br /></p><p>And so I ask you, the good people of CT, to help educate me on this 1946-S quarter.&nbsp; I have attached 2 photos of the same coin with different lighting.&nbsp; The first photo better shows the appearance of the coin in hand.&nbsp; What made the coin jump out at me was the white-ish nature of the luster (I hesitate to call it haze, because I associate that with unattractive toning and I hope/think that isn&#039;t what this is).&nbsp; I have read of &quot;frosty&quot; vs. &quot;satiny&quot; luster in various books on other series.&nbsp; Is one of those descriptions appropriate for this coin&#039;s appearance?&nbsp; Finally, are Washington quarters commonly known to look this way or are there other series that are known to often have this appearance (Peace $s and SLQs, where I spend most of my time, don&#039;t seem to)?&nbsp; I know this isn&#039;t &quot;rare&quot;, but I find I really like this look and I&#039;m interested in finding other items with a similar appearance (plus it&#039;s frustrating not to know how to describe it!).</p><p><br /></p><p>To make it a bit more fun (and selfishly to attract more interest), I decided to also make this post a GTG.&nbsp; I will post the grade at 10pm EDT on 5/6.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]931730[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]931731[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]931742[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to yell at me to go read the guide book if the answers to all my questions are in there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks all![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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