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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;desertgem, post: 2685277, member: 15199&quot;]Larry, you seem to be letting your &#039;desire&#039; get into the logic of the situation. Look at the number of proof cents produced in 1909 compared to the # of business strikes produced . Authors have commented that the mint had difficulty of meeting the need of business strike Lincoln cents for the population. The percentage of proof cents for collectors was just a small portion of production. </p><p><br /></p><p>The more logical scenario is that after the proofs were minted ( all with proof rims) the dies, still capable of producing cents were used to produce the needed business strikes but some of the proof rim and other characteristics remained on the business strikes, but not&nbsp; the preparation&nbsp; and care of production of a proof. Thus I doubt any proof really had business rims but the reverse was more likely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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