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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iPen, post: 3994402, member: 69760&quot;]I found a pic of the first 1892 proof! Granted, it&#039;s a photo taken presumably sometime in the 1960&#039;s (1968?), and the resolution isn&#039;t that great relative to today&#039;s standards. The first proof Columbian struck in 1892 in Chicago is at the Field Museum, along with an image of the original 4-page article from <i>The Centinel, the official publication of </i>CSNS that this story is pulled from (dated April 1968; these are the folks that host the annual coin show near Chicagoland - it&#039;s not as big as FUN but it&#039;s pretty darn big and Heritage hosts an auction there, too). The first pic below is of the box with the certified letter from the Board overseeing the Columbian Exposition. The coin is inserted at top on the right side - notice its deep, ultra cameo! It&#039;s hard to tell the surface quality, but the contrasting &quot;black&quot; is consistent with the effect you&#039;d see with a very mirrored surface (IME at least).</p><p><br /></p><p>The 4-page article details exactly where both the first struck proof 1892 and 1893 Columbian half dollars are located - at least at the time of the article, both were in Chicago -&nbsp; at the Field Museum and the Chicago Historical Society, respectively.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Also, it has a PMD!</b> Someone made a miniscule graffiti in the triangle area, where coincidentally one of the two proof die markers can be found (check out the right-hand side of the third page of the article). </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1662/25211656931_8cc0fdf0b4_c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1051653[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1051655[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1051666[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1051665[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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