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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1876117, member: 112&quot;]I can agree with that for the most part.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But I don&#039;t agree with this.</p><p><br /></p><p>The &#039;82 Washington commem was the first modern commem. There had been no commem coins minted or issued since the series ended in the 1950&#039;s due to overwhelming collector disinterest. The mint had been producing commems for decades by the &#039;50s, and large numbers of them. It seemed like almost any old reason was good enough for producing another commem. Many were even repeated over several years. Simply put collectors were tired of them. And even now, 50, 75, almost a 100 years later in some cases, collectors for the most part are still tired of early commems.</p><p><br /></p><p>So when the mint started up again in &#039;82 with the Washington commems, those memories were still all too fresh among collectors and the Washington was too popular. But it didn&#039;t have anything to do with the quality of the coins they were producing. And the mint did not purposely produce lower quality coins. On the contrary, the mint had high hopes for the coins and were trying to spark collector interest in commems again after an almost 30 years hiatus.</p><p><br /></p><p>But at that time the mint operated under different policies than they do today. It wasn&#039;t that they intentionally tried to produce low quality Unc commems, it was they didn&#039;t intentionally try to produce high quality Unc commems. Back then, those efforts to produce high quality coins were only expended on Proofs.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the value difference between Proof versions and Unc versions, it&#039;s pretty much a general rule across the board that high grade Unc versions of coins are worth more than Proofs of an equal grade. And what I just explained above is the reason for it, always has been. It&#039;s because high grade Unc versions are pretty scarce while high grade Proofs versions are pretty common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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