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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 4508228, member: 24314&quot;]<i>I think you may be having this disagreement because some things occur due to common usage.&nbsp; For example, it takes time for many universally used words to become &quot;officially recognized&quot; by an &quot;official&quot; dictionary of the English language.&nbsp; </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>In the same way, a descriptive term - &quot;Proof like&quot; was used in the distant past by some unknown numismatist to describe a coin having the similar reflectivity of a Proof surface.&nbsp; The term caught on and is still in use as &quot;Prooflike&quot; (PL) today.&nbsp; Two more things happened while I&#039;ve been a collector.&nbsp; Someone coined the word &quot;Semi-prooflike&quot; for coins that were close to PL or had an incomplete Proof surface.&nbsp; That once very popular, often used word has virtually been dropped completely from our language while in the meantime another &quot;someone&quot; came up with DMPL.&nbsp; While nothing &quot;official&quot; has been found, the industry has &quot;officially&quot; adopted these terms and they have been defined in numismatic dictionaries and publications for decades. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Nothing &quot;official&quot; though.</i>&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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