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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 7726210, member: 66&quot;]I find that typically the &quot;burnished&quot; eagles are is little &quot;whiter&quot; than the bullion coins.&nbsp; This is cause by the dies being a little more heavily etched than the ones used for the bullion coins. (Yes the die surfaces are etched.&nbsp; Probably lightly pickled with an acid solution.&nbsp; Used to be they would touch up that surface etching on the bullion dies by striking&nbsp; an ASE through a piece of emery cloth.&nbsp; Don&#039;t know if they still do that.) The whole spiel about the planchets for the W&nbsp; coins having been &quot;burnished&quot; is hogwash.&nbsp; ALL planchets are burnished.&nbsp; And so what if they are burnished.&nbsp; Once they are struck with the etched dies any surface burnishing of the planchet is lost anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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