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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 771397, member: 112&quot;]There are quite a few coins that were designed with satin luster. Perhaps most notable and easily recognizable would the Peace dollar. Many of our early commems also have a satin luster. But as to how to explain to you how to tell satin from say the luster on a Morgan - it&#039;s hard to put into words. To me it&#039;s trying to describe a color to someone who cannot see that color.</p><p><br /></p><p>I could tell you that it is smoother, softer, almost creamy looking - but does that really convey much meaning ? It would and it wouldn&#039;t, depending of who was doing the listening. So I guess the easiest way is for me to say for you to look at an MS Morgan and an MS Peace side by side and compare them. Then you will <u>know</u> what satin luster looks like.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Subdued yes, impaired no. It is just different. It is something that has to be seen, experienced, in order for it to be understood.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Most think it is, but then that&#039;s because most don&#039;t realize just how much difference there is between the types of luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>A good exercise, and one that will teach one more about luster than perhaps any other is for a person to get examples of a lot of different coins and look at them side by side. Now if you don&#039;t have these in your collection, no worries. Just go to a show or a dealer&#039;s shop and do it. Get a Morgan, a Peace dollar, an early commem, a Barber half or quarter, a Buffalo nickel, a Jeff, a Mercury dime, a Walker, a Washington quarter, and Frankie, a &#039;64 Kennedy half, a brilliant Proof and a cameo Proof - and look at them all side by side. </p><p><br /></p><p>What you will see is differences and similarities in the type of luster that each coin has. It&#039;s an interesting and yet very informative excercise that will open the eyes in surpirse of most who actually do it. For years, most thought they knew what each coin looked like in regard to the others. But when confronted with it right in front of their eyes they see differences where they did not know there were any. And they see similarities where they always thought they were.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Without seeing them, I cannot say. But I suspect it has more to do with what I have said above than anything else.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, that depends on what type of coin it is that you are looking at. Your question, in and of itself, pretty much proves what I was saying above.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every coin that has ever been struck has luster - every single one. It doesn&#039;t matter if it&#039;s an early cent, a Morgan or a modern cameo Proof - they all have luster. But every one has a different type of luster and thus a different type of cartwheel. So you cannot look at them, judge them, and compare them to other coins of a different type and/or series. They can only be compared to coins their own type and series.</p><p><br /></p><p>But pretty much any coin that has been over-dipped will have a flat, washed out, non reflective look. This is because there is no luster, or very little, remaining on the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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