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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2718434, member: 112&quot;]Well I&#039;ll readily agree that I worded my post poorly. Rather obviously once the dies were punched with the date 1964 they were not re-punched with a date of 1965. But the point remains, they are special coins. They were not struck with &#039;64 business strike dies, or &#039;64 Proof dies. They were struck with dies especially made for the purpose of striking those particular coins, just like the dies used for the other SMS coins were specially made. That&#039;s what I meant when I said they were struck with the same dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coins not having cameo, and having die polish lines visible, that makes sense. Trial strike dies could easily be expected to only be partially completed as in no cameo surfacing occurring and no final polishing occurring - just to see how the coins were going to strike up. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now if you choose not to call them trial strikes, OK, but I don&#039;t know what else you&#039;d call them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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