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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mikenoodle, post: 1734338, member: 307&quot;]Yak:</p><p><br /></p><p>The frosted devices have nothing to do with my opinion except to further bolster it. I refer to it as an enhanced proof rather than uncirculated because of the mix of both mirrored and frosted surfaces. The background and many parts of the devices are mirror finished. Mirror finish <b>IS</b> a trait of proof coins, and since about 1980, frosted surfaces are as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>But an even bigger reason for my objection to the use of the term uncirculated with this coin is simple. Every uncirculated ASE, not the regular bullion issues, but the ones sold directly to collectors from the Mint which feature a W mintmark (the Mint calls them uncirculated) have no mirror surfaces. They are flat and matte.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only ASEs sold to this point with mirror surfaces are the proofs. With that in mind I say that this coin better fits with the proof coins than the uncirculated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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