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Message:: [QUOTE="medoraman, post: 1241635, member: 26302"]Well an artist's proof is not inked twice, most other "proofs" are simply early impressions taken when everything is as good as it will be. Who put in the definition of "polished dies", "polished flans", or even "multiple strikes on a hydraulic press"? Is then a hand struck coin INCAPABLE of being a proof? Is proof limited to modern minting machinery? How about if a mint was incapable of holding a planchet perfectly still, so that multiple strikes would damage a coin, is that mint prohibited from having proof coinage? I understand the modern manufacturer of proofs, I am just going back to where the term came from, and asking if pre-modern factories who were incapable of manufacturing that way were in fact prohibited from describing their absolute highest quality coinage as "proofs". I am not trying to make up my own definition of "proof", just asking if it HAS to be the same manufacture method as today. To be honest, it simply seems people have changed the definition of "proof" to fit the way they are made today, rather than me making up a new definition. The word "proof" comes from "artists proof", simply early trials to "prove" the process, and archive the result. These are made every day still.[/QUOTE]