1964 Canadian Dollar - PROOFLIKE

The coin shown is .800 silver. Microscopic view would determine if it is in fact polished.

 

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I think the edges say otherwise.

 

Does that look like any polishing you have ever seen? A bit of tarnish/toning, no polishing lines anywhere

 

This issue was struck in Business Strike (BS), Proof-Like (PL) strike, and Specimen (SP) strike. This could be a PL or SP strike that was circulated (or used as a pocket piece), but it looks more like a circulated BS that has been polished up with silverware polishing paste. I say that due to the reflectivity of the "dings".

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IMO a polishing paste would be revealed by a multitude of hairlines, of which this coin has none. See close ups above

 

Not polished. Great coin thanks to mom and sisters!

 

When I was very young, I used my Mom's silverware paste to make my Mercury dime collection look "extra special". Your coin looks "familiar".

 

These two were also from them, a bit more beat up, but I love them.

 

Excellent. What's not to like!

 

I too have polished as a kid many copper nickel, copper and silver coins - thankfully not any of value. Also, I am quite used to specimen PL vs. matte, etc. from the Franklin Mint which cued me in a bit. This IMO does not appear like the polishing that I did on a "gross" sense, but also do not see polishing lines and the lettering is preserved - in order to get that effect, or lack thereof, there would be a halo effect around the lettering.
Not to confuse but there is none of that. Also, planchet prep is an interesting phenom in that there can be some real roughness to the flans even when lightly polished PRE-STRIKE & not all of the roughness is struck out...

 

Metal flow lines are eliminated with polishing a coin. Hence no luster apparent.