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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3158496, member: 112&quot;]That&#039;s a good example Kirk of how, and why, the term whizzed is being used incorrectly, at least in one way, by the TPGs to describe coins like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>The term whizzed predates the TPGs, it&#039;s not something new and has been around for a long, long time. And when the term whizzed was used it was only used to describe a coin where the entire coin had been whizzed. Which of course is completely understandable because the very purpose of whizzing a coin is to simulate luster on a coin that has no luster. When only a small area is done like that, altered surfaces would be a much more accurate description.</p><p><br /></p><p>In today&#039;s world, as that coin clearly indicates, when even a small area is altered to hide a defect such as&nbsp; bag mark, they are using the term whizzed to describe it. But were you to go back a few years you would never find a coin like that described as having been whizzed. The term was reserved and only used when the entire coin had been whizzed.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I said in my first post in this thread, the term has been bastardized in recent years to cover a multitude of sins and is used in ways that it would have never been used before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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