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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1694784, member: 112"]You've got the right idea, and that works fine for the video's purposes. But you are exaggerating the movements too much. Smaller, slower, movements are what you use when trying to judge a coin. In hand it's easy to see of a coin has luster or not. But when you are trying to judge the coin what you are looking for are breaks in the luster. And if there are any sometimes they will be very small and easily missed. So you go slowly, rocking the coin gently back and forth, looking only at very small areas at a time. And you want to pay particular attention to the high points on both sides of the coin for if there are any breaks, that is usually where they will be. But breaks are not always on the high points, even small breaks can be found in the fields when there are no breaks on the high points. So examination should be done slowly. With time comes experience and with experience comes speed, so that when you have enough experience you can accurately judge if there are any breaks in the luster in just seconds. But it takes quite a while to gain that much experience and it usually requires looking at hundreds of thousands of coins.[/QUOTE]