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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2858797, member: 112&quot;]If that&#039;s what you think then you don&#039;t understand my comments at all. I would readily agree that coin is lustrous.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have never claimed that MDS or LDS coins do not have luster - of course they can have luster. My&nbsp; claim is quite simple, when all other things are equal, an EDS coin will have a higher quality of luster than coins struck with the same dies in MDS or LDS.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also said that all struck coins (when they leave the dies) have luster, including Proofs, it&#039;s just a different kind of luster. And that there are many different kinds of luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, compare a Morgan and a Peace dollar, both coins absolutely have luster. But yet they look as different as night and day from each other. Frankies and Walkers both absolutely have luster, but yet they are quite different from each other, as are all other halves. The same thing is true with all gold coins, all copper coins, all silver coins. Each one has its own unique kind of luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>The luster we see on coins, all struck coins, is nothing more than a function of reflection and refraction. That is cold hard fact, not opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>You say the Proofs don&#039;t have luster, take a Proof coin and make an animated pic under the light just like you did for that cent. You&#039;ll see that the reflection of light rolls around coin just like it does on that cent. That&#039;s luster ! Will it look different than it does on the cent ? Of course it will, because it is a different kind of luster ! But that does not mean that there is no luster.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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