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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1356268, member: 66&quot;]And they conveniently forget to tell you that <b>ALL</b> planchets are burnished after annealing and before striking.&nbsp; The &quot;Unc with mintmark&quot; versions are whiter and frostier than the bullion versions not because the &quot;Unc&quot; has been struck on a burnished planchet, but because something has been done to the dies.&nbsp; A different or heavier etching.&nbsp; They just aren&#039;t telling us. and claiming it is a difference in the planchet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Striking by the dies flattens or wipes out differences or irregularities in the planchet so a regular planchet or an etched planchet when struck by the same dies would both have nearly the same appearance.&nbsp; But a regular planchet struck by normal dies will look much different from a regular planchet struck by etched dies.&nbsp; It is the DIES that are the overwhelming factor in the appearance of the final coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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