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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2542374, member: 24314&quot;]jtlee321 posted:&nbsp; &quot;I really enjoy this.&quot; <i><span style="color: #0059b3">me too</span>! </i> &quot;Insider you a very cool guy&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&quot;...and are fun to debate back and forth with. Here is an image I just made to show how the &quot;luster&quot; from the original un-affected surface and the affected area with the striations is continuous and uninterrupted.&quot; <span style="color: #0059b3">As a reflection from a metal surface should be (only different due to the different surfaces). </span>&quot;It is more difficult to see and convey using an image (<i><span style="color: #0059b3">I see it in your photo</span></i>) but under a strong loupe, it is plain as day.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The &quot;luster&quot; in the striated areas is not just reflections on the metal.&nbsp; <i><span style="color: #0059b3">Actually, it is.&nbsp; See comment below. </span></i>Luster is <i><span style="color: #00b359">[caused by the reflection of light from] </span></i>the microscopic ridges in the surface of a coin running from the center to the rims <i><span style="color: #00b300">[in a RADIAL direction] </span></i>caused by the metal being squeezed by immense pressure and forced to flow from the center out to the rims. It&#039;s why an uncirculated coin has a cartwheel effect. <i><span style="color: #0059b3">I agree</span></i>.&nbsp; I know you know this, and I want you to know that I know this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #0059b3">Now here is the &quot;rub.&quot;&nbsp; There is luster on the entire coin.&nbsp; As you have posted, radials go out from the center to the edges.&nbsp; Note that the striations in the center of the head and the rest of the coin ONLY GO IN ONE DIRECTION - up and down!&nbsp; Therefore <span style="color: #ff0000">they were not caused by the strike.&nbsp; <span style="color: #0059b3">IMO, they are &quot;relics&quot; in the interior of the planch strip occurring as the strip was pulled/stretched in the finishing mill at the mint.&nbsp; They have been exposed in that orientation on the surface and appear as they do because of the action of the chemical on different areas inside the planchet.&nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></span></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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