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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 93170, member: 66&quot;]I can think of several cases of a business strike planchets being struck by proof dies in the 19th century.&nbsp; Only one case comes to mind in the 20th and that was a case where it was &quot;helped&quot; into the press.&nbsp; As for proof planchets being struck by business strike dies, yes that happens.&nbsp; Usually because the proof planchets get rejected for a flaw.&nbsp; Rather than destroy they are used for business strike production.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other reasons a busness strike coin could look like a proof.&nbsp; New dies often produce coins with prooflike qualities.&nbsp; Dies that are polished to remove clash marks or other small defects will often produce coins with prooflike qualities.&nbsp; And in that case there can be polish lines left in the fields that can resurlt in the &quot;hairlines&quot; that were mentioned in regard to the coin that started this thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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