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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1321093, member: 112&quot;]Then I don&#039;t know Mike, or rather can&#039;t say with any degree of certainty. Maybe they just screwed up, or maybe they did it on purpose. Who knows.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, ANACS will absolutely create labels for large submitters, sometimes even small submitters. But NGC and PCGS will do the very same thing. But I have never seen them do it when it comes to a coin type, and that&#039;s what SP is, a type.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, and I&#039;ve discussed this before, it&#039;s (SP) not an accurate type for the satin finish coins. And it&#039;s most definitely not an accurate type for the 2011 Mint Set coins. A specimen coin is one that is struck to be used for approval purposes. They, specimens, are different from patterns even. Patterns are struck when they are trying to decide which way to go or what design to use. Specimens are struck after the pattern has been chosen, but before the production runs begin. They are struck and used to make sure the design really will work during the production runs. And no specimens are not test strikes either. Test strikes are the very first coins struck that are part of the actual production run. And they are struck merely to make sure that the presses are adjusted correctly. A whole lot of people get all these terms mixed up and use them incorrectly.</p><p><br /></p><p>And like I said before, I believe PCGS used SP for the satin finish coins just so they could be different than NGC. Those two companies, I swear, sometimes they&#039;d rather be wrong about something than they would to admit the other guy was right.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for SMS (special mint set), yes that is the correct designation for the satin finish coins. It was used to set them apart from all of the previous years of Mint Set coins, because they were different. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the same reason the &#039;65, &#039;66, and &#039;67 coins were called SMS, they were different, they were special. And the term was coined specifically for them. It had never been used before that, didn&#039;t exist before that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later, other special coins were minted that are and should be called SMS. The two matte finish nickels are SMS coins. And it was they came out that PCGS decided they had to be different from NGC and started using SP - an incorrect term for the coin involved.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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