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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1601466, member: 112&quot;]I dunno, I think frosty is misused as much as blast white is. The term frost or frosty refers to a coin that has a look of having frost, (just like the frost you see on the grass or your windshield in the winter time), on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Proofs are the coins most commonly described as having frost. The devices, legends, numerals etc on Proofs have frost. But the term is also commonly (and correctly) used to describe Morgans because virtually all unc Morgans have frost on the raised portions of the coin. But there are some Morgans, as well as other coins from the 1800&#039;s, that are described as having a frosty look to them. They are different than the average Morgan for even the fields can look to have frost on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s kind of like it is with a lot of other numismatic terms. They were originally only used to describe select, choice coins. But over the years some people started using to describe just about any coin, coins that were anything but select or choice. It has gotten to the point that in today&#039;s world those words are so over-used and incorrectly used that they have been become meaningless.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s gotten to the point that it is like Morgandude was saying about blast white. Some of those coins are no more blast white than I am, but yet the term is used to describe them. It&#039;s gotten so bad that most people wouldn&#039;t know a blast white coin if it bit them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only coins that are truly blast white are those have come straight from the press, and those that have been freshly dipped. All other coins, and I do mean all of them, have some degree of toning and they are not blast white.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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