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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dthigpen, post: 25907, member: 1438&quot;]Cameo coins came about when someone at the mint was too lazy to polish the dies, except for the fields.&nbsp; The director saw it and thought it would be a good gimmick and decided to start doing it most, if not all the time with proof dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>As more coins are struck with the die, the &#039;effect&#039; of this goes away and the coin has a uniform mirror finish after awhile.&nbsp; So basically, the initial coins on any given die these days *should* have good cameo and the last coins, if they use the dies long enough, won&#039;t have much (Don&#039;t see it happening much these days, I&#039;m betting they &#039;assist&#039; the dies a bit more to create more cameos these days).</p><p><br /></p><p>Deep and Ultra Cameos (Two different designations from two different grading companies, both implying the same thing) is just a degree of contrast between the devices and the fields, and is subjective.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then again, I could be wrong about all of this, *shrug*...</p><p><br /></p><p>Douglas Thigpen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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