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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1167559, member: 112&quot;]It&#039;s not a striking condition. At least not in the way I would use those terms. Frost, is only ever caused by one thing - die preparation. For there to be frost on the devices of a coin the die has to be intentionally prepared to cause that frosted effect. What it amounts to is simple, the recessed surfaces of the die&nbsp; are roughed up. There are, if you could look close enough pitted. But that pitting is done to such an extent that virtually every microscopic pit touches all of the other adjoining microscopic pits. When you realize that this frost effect is created by using any of several different methods such as acid, sandblasing, or a laser, then it is easier to understand the pitting I am talking about. And of course since a coin has the opposite of whatever a die has - a depression on a die is bump on a coin - all those microscopic pits in the die create microscopic bumps on the coin. It is those bumps that create the frost.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes frost is always considered to be a positive. But given the picture you are using, and the term frosty you are using, it is also important to understand that when somebody says a Morgan is frosty, that doesn&#039;t mean the same thing that using the word frost means. The word frosty is typically used to describe Morgans that have the same look as the one in your picture. Yes, the devices of most Morgans have frost, but not all Morgans are described as frosty. When you use frosty it is used when trying to describe the look of the fields more than anything else. And that frosty look is caused by nothing more than luster and the early stages of toning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now there are other coins that sometimes have a frosty look to them, but Morgans are far and away the most common. But in all cases it is caused by the same thing.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Those are not types of strikes, they are types of finishes and they have nothing to do with strike. And frosty is not even a type of finish. All finishes are the result of inetentional die preparation.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your color adjectives are just that - adjectives. They have been used over the years to describe the way a coin looks, nothing more and nothing less.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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