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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1727636, member: 112&quot;]Actually this would indicate worn out dies, not new dies. New Proof dies would result in coins with a strong mirror finish and a cameo effect on the devices. </p><p><br /></p><p>Back then the mint didn&#039;t really care if the Proofs they produced came out exactly as intended. So it was their habit to use the Proof dies to strike a great many more coins than they should have. So as the dies wore due to metal flow the first thing to go was the cameo effect on the devices, then the mirrors would begin to suffer. This did not change until 1973. From then on the Proofs pretty much all had strong mirrors and the cameo effect that was intended.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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