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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 407523, member: 11521&quot;]Are you referring to Matte Proofs? The Mint made Matte Proof coins beginning around 100 years ago and up until they stopped making Proof coins entirely around 1916. Proof coins had a mirror finish before and after Matte Proof coins. I have several 19th Century Proof coins with nice mirrors. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When the Mint resumed Proof Coin production in 1936 the first coins were not brilliant Proofs like modern Proofs (but I don&#039;t think they were Matte Proofs either). After complaints from the public the Mint changed their production to brilliant Proofs like we know today. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So pre-1950 Proof coins have a mirror finish except for the Matte Proofs made for a few years and the early 1936 Proofs (and perhaps a handful of other exceptions).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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