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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2885509, member: 112"]Not necessarily so. As I mentioned previously, the answer to which is more valuable depends specifically on which coin you are talking about. When it comes to how coins were stored you have to remember that until the 1970's or so it was considered normal and a very common practice for collectors to harshly clean the coins in their collections on a regular basis, including the Proofs. So with many coins there can be several other factors that have a much greater impact on determining whether a Proof or business strike for a given issue is more valuable. Think of mintage for example. If there were only 600-700 Proofs minted, and several million or tens of millions of business strikes minted it is not unusual for there to be far fewer Proofs still in existence than there are business strikes. And then the Proofs will be more valuable. In other cases the opposite is true. To a limited degree this is correct, but not always, especially with older coins. With more modern coins, yes it is more common. However, there are a few cases among older coins where very, very, few or even no MS examples are known to exist. So in a case like that yeah the business strike is going to be more valuable. This is one of those subjects where there just isn't a generality that is true.[/QUOTE]