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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 26053566, member: 77639&quot;]Piefort (or piedfort) simply means a double-thick coin.&nbsp; It can have any type of finish: circulation, special or proof.&nbsp; However, because they are produced as presentation or collector pieces or as patterns, most have a special (which is between circulation and proof) or proof finish.&nbsp; “Piefort” is not synonymous with “special strike”.&nbsp; A pic of a proof piefort is below.</p><p><br /></p><p>Folks, including grading services, will disagree over whether a particular issue is a special strike or not.&nbsp; Some may put it in the circulation bin because they consider the finish to be far from proof and/or the mintage may be huge.&nbsp; If the mintage is small and the finish is proofy, then the coin may fall into the gray area of proof versus special.&nbsp; There is an unfortunate tendency to rely on mint statements in this regard rather than letting just the coin speak regarding its method of manufacture.</p><p><br /></p><p>Complicating the issue is that grading services have extended PL suffixes to grades for coins other than Morgan dollars.&nbsp; So, looking only at the coins themselves what’s the difference between MS63PL and SP63?</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1657342[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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