What year did proofs become virtually 100% cameos ?

I don't pay much attention to modern stuff. Did this happen like all in one year ?

Sometime in the 70's, maybe ?

I rarely look at at a coin minted after about 1950.

 

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I went and looked close at my sets of proofs and starting 1971 the sets are certainly frosted more so then average sets dating 1970 and earlier.

I can't recall seeing a proof set from the mid to later seventies that wasn't cameo. Certainly today ultra deep cameos are more then common.

Hope that helps.

Allen

 

"What year did proofs become virtually 100% cameos ?"

I would guess middle 1860's.

 

I my experience it was 1973. Non-cameos before 1973 are not unusual, and after 1973 very scarce. Most 1973's are cameos as well.

 

I agree but it's not for all coins,

I agree but it's not for all coins. 1970 and above we see many cameo Kennedy's, a few less for Washington's, a few less for Roosevelt's but much less on Jefferson's and very much less on Lincoln's so it depends, (the truest answer to all questions IMO).
It seems that the mint was paying much attention to Kennedy's and only some attention to the others.
I did not see consistent cameos on Lincoln's till the late eighties and early 90's and even then not on all.

 

uncle GD how about u draw us a time line for world coins. 17th century or is that wrong? someone here mentioned 1770 but i thought it was much earlier than that

 

cameo proofs seemed to become commonplace in 1973, many of these coins had cloudy or hazy fields and this seemingly stopped around 1982.

Most proof coins from 1982 - date are of exceptional quality and it is the exception rather than the rule that these coins look anything less than spectacular.

 

ah i feel much better

 

Wow, now that is an awesome piece of trivia...I didn't know that. :thumb:

 

Doug - I just knew you were an old guy.

 

you mean he was there????

 

I concur.

Almost all 1983 to date proofs are DCAM and '82 to date are superb. I think they might have peaked back in the '80's but every coin except culls are very high quality still.

 

Could a non-cameo proof from the 80's become worth big money, as a converse query ?

Could something like an 82-s Kennedy that is as flat as a typical Franklin in contrast. It's probably rarer than a deep cameo Franklin ?

I don't even know if it exists, but I'd probably buy it, as almost an error proof coin, for normal price.

 

dont be silly how could he be there we were playing coins in his space ship. after the parting of the nile he rarely went down except to get coins

 

u 2 notice he didnt mention me hahahahahah