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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;charley, post: 8346004, member: 5372&quot;]The U.S. Mint:</p><p>&quot;Mint Luster: The dull, frosty or satiny shine found on uncirculated coins.&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>TPGs have taken some liberty in using the term &quot;luster&quot;, in my opinion, and have applied the word &#039;luster&quot; as a description of &quot;Mint Luster&quot;, and collectors and dealers follow suit, and it has become a bastardized monetary weapon when describing a coin, and the practitioners seem to forget the word &quot;uncirculated&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>How many times have anyone on CT seen or read a description of a circulated coin as:&nbsp; &quot;...some original luster...&quot; or &quot;...still has some original luster with only a slight rub...&quot; (read that one on a 45 Graded piece) or &quot;...mint luster remaining in the majority of fields...&quot;?&nbsp; Anyone on CT, that is how many.</p><p><br /></p><p>Talk about word appropriation for economic gain....</p><p><br /></p><p>Et Tu, Insider?</p><p><br /></p><p>Truth in editing&quot; added a quotation mark.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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