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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blue Lue Boyle, post: 2222026, member: 75509&quot;]Hello</p><p><br /></p><p>If an uncirculated coin has some vivid luster to it, but the luster is somewhat chaotic, does that generally indicate that the coin may have been polished or somehow the surface of the coin was manipulated?</p><p><br /></p><p>For example,I&#039;ve seen some uncirculated coins w/ a crisp beam of luster that cartwheels cleanly around the coin when the coin&#039;s maneuvered under a light source.</p><p><br /></p><p>Differently, I have this War Nickel, it&#039;s not a very special coin or anything, but I am wondering about it b/c it has a good amount of luster, it&#039;s just, when I rotate it under the light, it&#039;s not like a nice, clean spoke/beam of luster, it&#039;s more like a big splash of luster with a bunch of smaller/sloppy cartwheels, and it makes me feel like maybe it was polished or something, I don&#039;t know, it&#039;s as if the luster has been broken or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>I threw in a pic, but I don&#039;t know if that&#039;ll be too helpful since it&#039;s sitting still.&nbsp; Thanks[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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