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Message:: [QUOTE="7Jags, post: 8429791, member: 78719"]I think I agree to some extent about the hype although there were some special strikes that were NOT evidently labelled at the time.Interestingly, "special" issues did not always fall into nice neat categories of "proof", "prooflike", "specimen", "matte", "specimen" or others.And now there are attempts to pigeonhole these. There is some evidence that some proofs got better treatment than others, and one example is the 1953 proof set, where some of the pennies and farthings (and I believe halfcrowns) not only appear nicer than "typical" but were even struck from different dies. However, just like the crown in the OP, most can not probably be truly separated IMHO artificially. So a confusing issue that is interesting. I guess my main point was that the buyer beware (Caveat emptor) of especially crowns but also many of the other denominations & that the TPG label may not have a lot of meaning.[/QUOTE]