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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2719058, member: 16729&quot;]For all other coins that have <b>these two finishes</b>, the Korean catalogs list &quot;무광프루프&quot; (frosted proof) and &quot;유광프루프&quot; (proof, unfrosted).</p><p><br /></p><p>These are the ONLY coins that the Korean catalogs list as such.&nbsp; Either THEY copied Krause&#039;s crappy entry, or Krause copied the Korean catalogs&#039; crappy entry.&nbsp;&nbsp; Something happened, and it&#039;s messed up.</p><p><br /></p><p>I own a copy of a rather arcane book written by a former Komsco (Korean Mint) coin designer, and he lists these Shooting Championships coins as: </p><p><br /></p><p>1)&quot;무광프루프&quot; (frosted proof), mintage 20,000 pieces; and </p><p>2)&quot;일반화&quot; (regular strike), mintage 80,000 pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, the unfrosted proof, should not be the more-valued coin, and so Krause has the values of the coins switched.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, I get that...&nbsp; Perhaps sometimes mints get bored and just &quot;polish up&quot; the dies and struck them as shinier coins?&nbsp; Who knows?</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I remember seeing Krause-Mishler numbers on some slabs in the past...</p><p>I don&#039;t think they do that anymore as to avoid the confusions that we are discussing presently(!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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