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<p>[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 3582115, member: 92655"]Welcome to coin collecting. A lifetime addiction..... Lots of answers will be coming your way. I’ll just offer this. A proof coin is a deliberate process. They are not meant for circulation however they are still legal tender. The process a proof coin undergoes insures that the coin will be as perfect is is humanly possible. They are a joy to look at...... A business struck coin is just that. Working dies bang out millions of them. Only those that are struck early in the life of the dies are of a high enough quality that is sought after by the most scrutinizing collectors........ So, yes a proof coin is expected to be near perfect. Thus they typically do not bring strong premiums. A business struck coin is not expected to be perfect. However those few business struck coins that do achieve that near perfect status are highly collectible and quite pricey...... Hope that makes some sense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Randy Abercrombie, post: 3582115, member: 92655"]Welcome to coin collecting. A lifetime addiction..... Lots of answers will be coming your way. I’ll just offer this. A proof coin is a deliberate process. They are not meant for circulation however they are still legal tender. The process a proof coin undergoes insures that the coin will be as perfect is is humanly possible. They are a joy to look at...... A business struck coin is just that. Working dies bang out millions of them. Only those that are struck early in the life of the dies are of a high enough quality that is sought after by the most scrutinizing collectors........ So, yes a proof coin is expected to be near perfect. Thus they typically do not bring strong premiums. A business struck coin is not expected to be perfect. However those few business struck coins that do achieve that near perfect status are highly collectible and quite pricey...... Hope that makes some sense.[/QUOTE]
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