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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 18187291, member: 27832"]I won a date set of Washington quarters in an old cardboard holder from eBay. Every one was polished like this. A shame, too -- I think there were a couple of overstruck MMs, and some of the coins were likely MS before hitting the polisher. But I got the set slightly below melt when silver was low, so not as much of a shame as it could've been -- I bought them as junk silver, and that's how I flipped them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit to add: this looks like polishing, <i>as opposed to</i> whizzing. Whizzing puts fine <i>radial</i> lines on the coin's surface, producing an imitation of original luster. Polishing just produces a mirror finish, like this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 18187291, member: 27832"]I won a date set of Washington quarters in an old cardboard holder from eBay. Every one was polished like this. A shame, too -- I think there were a couple of overstruck MMs, and some of the coins were likely MS before hitting the polisher. But I got the set slightly below melt when silver was low, so not as much of a shame as it could've been -- I bought them as junk silver, and that's how I flipped them. Edit to add: this looks like polishing, [I]as opposed to[/I] whizzing. Whizzing puts fine [I]radial[/I] lines on the coin's surface, producing an imitation of original luster. Polishing just produces a mirror finish, like this.[/QUOTE]
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