Just opened a roll of 2000-P Sacagawea and noticed that 6 of them look a bit different. Are these cameo coins or something else? They all have the same small die break in the Y of LIBERTY. Some coins are like this: Some have a different texture:
My new camera is supposed to be here in a couple of weeks from China. It'll make this so much easier. It runs through the Y and curves downward a bit on the coins. Yes, I can take some pics of the entire coin also. I was just trying to show the texture/shinyness difference by zooming in.
Can you please explain what you mean by "cameo coins"? Do you mean they have prooflike surfaces? From the pictures provided, I don't see anything atypical for the 2000-P Sac $1.
Basically, some of the coins are extremely smooth & reflective, the others with the die chip/break seem grittier and have a different appearance. You don't need a loop to see the difference. I borrowed my husband's cellphone to take some additional pics. They're uploading now. Hopefully they'll show up better without the LED lights getting in the way.
There were more than 750 million 2000-P Sacs minted. Various die states and levels of repair can create areas of prooflike surfaces. That is a normal part of the coining process. The fact that some coins have shinier surfaces and others have more frost doesn't really surprise me, nor should it you. A true "cameo" coin (your word not mine) has nothing to do necessarily with smooth and reflective surfaces. "Cameo" is a term reserved to describe the difference in surfaces between the fields and the devices on a single coin. A coin is generally said to have "cameo contrast" if the fields are glassy and prooflike, while the devices are offset with a frosty or satiny feel. I don't see any cameo effect on either of your posted coins based on those images -- which is why I asked you to clarify in the first place.
Both seem normal to me . The top coin like Doug said is from a late die state , where the die develops more flow lines as it ages , causing what some call an orange peel effect . Hope this helps .
