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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1734207, member: 18157&quot;]So the question comes down to whether or not this coin is an enhanced &quot;Unc&quot; or enhanced &quot;Proof&quot;. I guess we can all agree that it&#039;s been &quot;enhanced&quot;. The US Mint calls the coin &quot;Enhanced Uncirculated&quot;. You describe the coin as &quot;Enhanced Proof&quot;. The coin certainly exhibits at least one (1) trait that&#039;s associated with Proof coins...a frosted finish. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, keep in mind that in the early days &quot;frosting&quot; was an inadvertent by-product of Proof die preparation...not all proof coins exhibited &quot;frosting&quot;. In fact, the characteristics that separated a Proof coin from a business strike were...</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Die preparation</p><p>2. Strike pressure</p><p>3. Number of strikes</p><p>4. Design (sometimes)</p><p><br /></p><p>...frosting not being one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today, since the &quot;deep cameo&quot; appearance is so desirable amongst collectors, the Mint has developed a machine that uses lasers to specifically create a texture that approximates earlier frosting techniques such as sandblasting. This laser technique is no longer a by-product of Proof die preparation, but an artificial enhancement that (until now) has been reserved for Proof coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, there&#039;s no &quot;rule&quot; that stipulates this artificial enhancement technique be reserved for Proof coins. In this case, this enhancement technique is being used on &quot;Uncirculated&quot; coins; coins that don&#039;t have extra pressure, strikes, or design modifications applied...characteristics typical of &quot;Proofs&quot;. I have to agree with the US Mint on this one...(jmho).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>US Mint description of this coin...</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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