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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 973634, member: 112&quot;]But Proofs, and Specimen or Presentation pieces are different things. Proof after all is merely a method of manufacture. And that method is different than the one used for Specimen or Presentation pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Proofs, even the very first Proof, were made with specially prepared polished dies and specially prepared polished planchets. And they were always struck at higher pressures and more than once, sometimes many times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Specimen and Presentation pieces were always struck only once with ordinary business strike dies and usually on ordinary planchets. One exception to this would be when Spanish colonial cob coinage was being issued. Then the Presentation pieces were struck on special planchets. But the only thing that made them special was that they only used fully round planchets of a uniform thickness - as opposed to the rough cobs of the business strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>So because the method of manufacture for Proofs is different, they cannot be called anything but Proofs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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