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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1200323, member: 112&quot;]Well, that&#039;s kind of the problem. People tend to have their own personal definitions or understandings for things, but those personal definitions are almost always wrong. As a result of that there are lot of coins that are described as &quot;whizzed&quot; that are no more whizzed than a coin fresh from the coin presses is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Polished coins are not whizzed, harshly cleaned coins are not whizzed, scratched coins (many scratches close together) are not whizzed. Whizzing has a very clear and explicit definition, and nothing other than that explicit definition applies.</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin can be whizzed in only one way. A mechanical tool with a very fine wire brush or wheel operating at a high rate of speed must be used on the surface of the coin. Most of the time the brush/wheel will only be used on the fields. That is why one of the tell tale signs of whizzing is piled up metal where the fields meet the devices, as described by desertgem. But sometimes it will be used on the entire surface of the coin, including the devices.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, when a coin has been whizzed by somebody that knows what they are doing, the average person will be unable to detect it. That&#039;s why the process is used to begin with. Of course there are botched jobs, done by people who do not know what they are doing and these are easily detected by almost anybody. But even coins that were whizzed by the best have a certain, disticntive look to the trained eye. For while the whizzing simulates luster, it does not replicate luster. The look is entirely different and if a whizzed coin were viewed side by side with a coin that does have luster that difference becomes evident. Whizzing merely reflects the light in a blury manner and there will be no cartwheel, where luster reflects the light in a sharp and consistent manner and the cartwheel effect is plainly evident.</p><p><br /></p><p>The keys to recognizing a whizzed coin are pretty simple. The first and easiest is the lack of the cartwheel effect, a whizzed coin will never have it. The next easiest to see, but magnification must almost always be used, is the piled up metal against the edges of the devices, lettering, and numerals. The next, and perhaps hardest to see and again with magnification, is the presence of very, very fine lines all running in a parallel and straight direction. There will be no swirls or crossing of lines if the whizzing is done correctly and they will cover pretty much the entire surface of the fields. The only areas that will not have these lines, and this is another tell tale, are the protected areas inside the lettering or numerals; like inside the loop of a 9, a 6, or an 8. In far fewer cases, as I mentioned before, the fine lines will cover the devices as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>And last but not least is that a whizzed coin has a &quot;certain look&quot; to it. Those who are familiar with this look will see it almost immediately while those who are not familiar will never see it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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