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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ldhair, post: 2269948, member: 11540&quot;]I gave you other possible reasons for what we are seeing in this one image and I did that without questioning your experience. My post were to inform as well but I have an open mind as to what is possible. Lighting will play tricks on your eyes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Look at all the lighting hot spots on this coin. They are everywhere. You can&#039;t whiz the inside vertical edges of a letter and draw material to the top and above the letter. It&#039;s not possible. You can get that effect with a different type of tooling but not with whizzing. Too many of the hot spots we are seeing are perfectly straight lines. You don&#039;t get that with whizzing. You would need a computer to control the brush to that degree. One slight movement would blow the line and the lighting would loose the sharp edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now lets look at the fields. Look at the clash marks in front of the eye. A whizzing would have knocked off the sharp edges. Those sharp edges are still there and the lighting picked up on them and they show as hot spots. Staying with the fields. When you whiz the fields of a coin, some material is dropped off just before the edges of the lettering or other devices. You don&#039;t see that in the image of the 1892. You do see the shadowing or the material in the images of the 1884 and the 1924 that were also posted. I can agree that those two coins were whizzed based on the images. Show me different images of any of these coins and my opinion may change 180.</p><p><br /></p><p>KurtS</p><p>I understand that you are well versed on IHCs. I respect your opinion. You just need a better example of whizzing if you wish to teach this topic. </p><p>I never act like I know something if I don&#039;t. I know it or I don&#039;t post an opinion as fact. If I&#039;m wrong, I&#039;ll say so. In my fifty plus years in this hobby I have learned a bit. In the past forty, I grew up with the best coin doctors there have ever been. Believe me when I say that I know the topic. I try not to bring this up because people want me to teach the art. I can&#039;t do that but I feel good just teaching folks how to spot it, just like you. There are many more on the forums that feel the same as I do. They know it but only wish to share how to spot it. I could go on but I&#039;m going to stop with this long winded reply.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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