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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 1261137, member: 18157&quot;]I don&#039;t think anyone knows how just how rare these new die varieties are. The most famous one to date is the <b><a href="http://mintnewsblog.com/2011/01/2007-w-proof-100-platinum-eagle-frosted/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mintnewsblog.com/2011/01/2007-w-proof-100-platinum-eagle-frosted/" rel="nofollow">2007 &quot;Frosted FREEDOM&quot; varitiey</a></b> of the $100 American Platinum Eagle. The pre-strike artist renderings depict the word &quot;FREEDOM&quot; as textured (frosted), but a design change was made before the coins were struck which left the word &quot;FREEDOM&quot; polished so it would stand out from the background. </p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently, one guy at the Mint didn&#039;t get the memo because there has been at least one (1) coin found with the word &quot;FREEDOM&quot; frosted. The Mint may have caught and destroyed the others...maybe they didn&#039;t. This is the only one that&#039;s surfaced to date. </p><p><br /></p><p>I think the entire Numismatic community is still trying to wrap their collective minds around &quot;frosting&quot; as a die variety. &quot;Senior&quot; collectors were introduced to proof frosting when it was&nbsp; incidental to the minting process; only seen on first strike coins. They don&#039;t think of cameo variations as an error, per se.&nbsp; However, modern proofs are purposefully textured and the texturing is supposed to be consistent and accurate. Beginning in 2004,&nbsp; laser texturing was introduced on a limited basis. By 2006 it was used&nbsp; on all Mint proof issues...so it&#039;s a relatively recent innovation. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lesser variations (like the streaked quarters) are probably more common and less collectible...but interesting none the less. I wish I could post a picture of the Coin World error. It&#039;s as dramatic (and surely more rare) than the 1955 DDO. It may take quite some time before laser texturing errors develop a&nbsp; collector base. If you find any dramatic laser frosting errors, I wouldn&#039;t send them back to the Mint...just as I wouldn&#039;t send back a 1955 DDO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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