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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2216189, member: 112&quot;]Whizzed, and or whizzing is another one of those terms where its definition has become corrupted, changed, altered, (pick your word) to mean all kinds of things, depending on who is using it at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Originally whizzed had one and only one meaning, it was used to describe a coin the surfaces of which had been altered by someone using a wire-wheel brush device, typically on the fields only, resulting in a series of very fine lines/scratches that covered the coin. This was done in an effort the simulate the look of luster in order to make a person viewing the coin think it was higher grade than it really was.</p><p><br /></p><p>A whizzed coin had several diagnostics that were easily seen by experienced eyes. Most would see it at a glance because they have a very distinctive look. But closer inspection would reveal pushed up metal at edges of the devices and legends - a result of the grinding done by the wire-wheel brush.</p><p><br /></p><p>But today, whizzed is often used to describe coins that have had any of a number of things done to them to alter the surfaces of the coin. And it can be either the entire coin or just the fields. Polished coins for example are often said to have been whizzed, when they were never whizzed at all. A polished coin has an entirely different look than a whizzed coin. But, people seem to insist on bastardizing the definitions of words and so it has become what it is, with few aware of the differences.</p><p><br /></p><p>Suffice it to say that in the end whizzed is used, even if incorrectly, to describe a coin with altered surfaces. And any coin with altered surfaces, regardless of the method used to alter those surfaces, is just as bad as any other. And all of them are problem coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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