frosted devices: raised design elements that still have a white, slightly grainy finish. Opposite: brilliant devices.
frosty luster: luster that is crisp, bright, and slightly crystalline in appearance.
frosted devices
Raised elements on coins struck with treated dies that have frost in their recessed areas. Such coins have crystalline surfaces that resemble frost on a lawn.
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frosted devices: raised designs on a coin which are struck with treated dies that have frost in recessed areas
FS: "Full Steps" is used to describe a Jefferson nickel where 5.5 or 6 steps are fully defined on the picture of Monticello ...
FROSTED DEVICES
A coin with frosty white lustre on the devices and usually in contrast to fields that are proof or proof like in appearance. See Cameo Contrast.
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Frosted devices
Raised devices on coins struck with frosted dies, resulting in a frosty appearance.
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Cameo The term applied to coins, usually Proofs and prooflike coins, that have frosted devices and lettering that contrast with the fields. When this is deep the coins are said to be "black and white" cameos.
Heavily frosted devices appear to float in a deeply mirrored sea of deep gold. A simply superb Proof of the highest order; the physical quality of this piece is outweighed only by its exquisite aesthetic appeal.
These will have deep mirrors, frosted devices, and orange peel fields. When the dies are first made the steel is soft so that the design and date can easily be impressed into it.
Simulating the appearance of a proof coin with its mirror field and frosted devices.
A desgination given to a Morgan Dollar that possesses heavily FROSTED DEVICES and MIRRORED FIELDS, which result in a CAMEO appearance.
Modern proof coins often have mirror-like fields and frosted devices, although proof coins struck prior to the mid twentieth century are often distinguished only by their high quality surfaces.
device and frosted devices on both sides), in actuality there are four
varieties, the other two are: mirror finishes on both sides and frosted
devices on the obverse with a mirror finished reverse. There are no ...
Proof dies
Dies which are prepared and used exclusively to produce proof coins. Often, the fields of proof dies are highly polished to impart a mirrorlike finish, and the recessed areas are left unfinished to create frosted devices.
 See also: Frosted, Frost, Struck, Coin, Mint
  
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