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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 2685937, member: 77413&quot;]Kevin -</p><p>Thank you for replying. The discussion of matte proof Lincolns often fails to fully answer a lot of questions that people have about exactly how many dies were used. When people suspect there are still unidentified die sets, then there is always hope that the next great coin is yet to be found.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have two specific questions, if I might.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, I have this 1915. I am not asserting that it&#039;s a proof, only that it seems similar to the coin posted by [USER=26773]@buffnixx[/USER] above. How are we certain that these are not proof, and are meant to be business strikes?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]601421[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, I have this example of a 1912 business with plain surfaces,</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]601422[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>which is so different from this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]601423[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The second does not have any of the accepted proof die markers, but sure doesn&#039;t look like the other one, either. In a post many years ago on another site you mentioned that each die was used for about 1000 strikes. For 1912 there are enough coins to justify two dies. So how is it determined that there is just one set of accepted diagnostics?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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