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Message:: [QUOTE="iPen, post: 3996478, member: 69760"]Nice! Thanks for the pic!! So this is technically the second coin struck and put into envelope #1, which is in the display case/box held at/by the Field Museum. Look at the "1892" date - it looks very obviously different, skinnier, and sharper than the 1892 seen on business strikes. It would be interesting to see the "graffiti" damage done where the obverse proof die marker is. Now for the other mystery... what does the first ever struck commemorative coin with a planchet flaw, and thus rejected by Mint workers, look like? It was destroyed as reported by the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times; yet, it's stated in the article that you can identify it by its sharper die state and planchet flaw, but oddly enough, it left out the very obvious way to identify it - what the damage done by the Mint worker looks like! Granted, not any one identifying mark is sufficient, and  all three identifying marks would help to confirm this coin. That also makes me wonder how the TPGs would classify it... "Damaged - Mint Worker"?[/QUOTE]