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Difference Between "Burnished/Satin-Finish" ASE

The Us Mint uses a water stream under high pressure to "Burnish" ASE. They prepare the blank in this way and using a 5x or 10x jewelers loop you can see a consistant satiny smooth look to the coin with none or very little shining silver. The regular ASE have much shining silver appearance to it. On the collectors version,the ASE that has a "W" mint mark is a constant flat not silvery surface if you put the bullion ASE and the burnished side by side and you can 100% see the difference. Also all ASE until this year are produced at west point. San Francisco mint was asked to help this year to mint ASE because West Point was back logged. Philadelpia mint does make some ASE proofs.The USMINT stopped making Satin-Finish coins in Mint Sets and other sets sold by the mint in 2011. 2010 was the last year for all Satin Finish coins because the mint stated they were losing money! The earlier post with 2 ASE that were bullion versions with no mint marks are not Burnished. Just look at the way the Silver shines! On Burnished Eagles it does not shine like that it is more less FLAT with a total different appearance.Take the 5x or 10x loop test and for those of you who still cannot tell then maybe its time for some glasses. If the ASE has no mint mark than it is a bullion version sold by the mint to qualified dealers so collectors can buy and hoard silver.
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