Hi All, I bought recently this coin and made a comparison with one i found in Heritage Auction site. I'm not sure. Could you help me to figure out if my coin can be a Matte Proof, or just a circulated coin? Thanks in advance.
I’m no expert...but yours looks like a business strike to me. It doesn’t have the same detail or sharpness at the rims as the proof example.
Proofs of this era are sometimes a bit deceiving. I believe yours to be an ordinary non-cameo proof that has some light oxidation. Maybe it's my eyes, but the rims look reasonably sharp and the devices & lettering clean and reasonably well struck. The mattes were media-blasted, and look distinctly different - even the matte you showed is a bit of a lesser specimen.
