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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3518571, member: 112&quot;]Well, I think that&#039;s a large part of what I tried to explain in my first response. So how to understand it ? If I tried to describe it, it would go something like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think of a cameo Proof, they are described as having frosted devices and mirrored fields. But why do you think they chose to use the word &quot;frosted&quot; in regard to the devices ? It&#039;s because that&#039;s how they look, like they have been covered with frost. The very same kind of frost that you see on your car windshield or your lawn on a cold fall morning. In other words, the devices on a cameo Proof look like they have been covered with ice crystals - same as your windshield or lawn.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now on Proofs, only the raised devices are frosted. But on business strikes the entire coin sometimes has a very similar look or appearance, the devices and the fields both have a frosty appearance. It&#039;s not exactly the same as the frosted devices of a Proof, but as I said it is similar.</p><p><br /></p><p>To help with understanding, do a simple exercise. Go to Heritage, access the Auction Archives, and in the Key Word box type in &quot;frosty&quot; and hit your Enter key. This is what will come up - </p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=51+790+231&amp;Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&amp;Nty=1&amp;Ntt=frosty&amp;limitTo=all" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=51+790+231&amp;Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&amp;Nty=1&amp;Ntt=frosty&amp;limitTo=all" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=51+790+231&amp;Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&amp;Nty=1&amp;Ntt=frosty&amp;limitTo=all</a></p><p><br /></p><p>With every one of those coins they used the word frosty to describe the luster on the coin. And they are all similar in that look to the OP&#039;s coin in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>A satin luster or a satiny coin has a different look. And just like frosty was chosen to describe one look, satiny was chosen to describe another. And it was chosen for similar reasons, because that look is similar to that of satin, the material, just as fall frost was chosen for the other.</p><p><br /></p><p>To see what that looks like, and how it differs from frosty simply perform the same exercise on Heritage, only this time use satin and/or satiny as your key word. This is what that brings up - </p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=51+790+231&amp;Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&amp;Nty=1&amp;Ntt=satiny&amp;limitTo=all&amp;ic4=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=51+790+231&amp;Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&amp;Nty=1&amp;Ntt=satiny&amp;limitTo=all&amp;ic4=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=51+790+231&amp;Ntk=SI_Titles-Desc&amp;Nty=1&amp;Ntt=satiny&amp;limitTo=all&amp;ic4=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The difference in the two looks is pretty easy to see in my eyes and it apparently is for most others as well as the two words are commonly used to describe the luster on various coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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