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<p>[QUOTE="Kirkuleez, post: 2738957, member: 36864"]Cameo and deep cameo are simply descriptions of the coins appearance and has nothing to do with the grade (or level of preservation). You will notice that modern proofs are almost always deep cameo, but this is just the result of the way that modern dies are laser etched. Back in the day, the dies were pickled to highlight the devices, then the fields were polished. The pickling worked well with the first few coins, but it would fade fast resulting in very few surviving deep cameo early proofs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kirkuleez, post: 2738957, member: 36864"]Cameo and deep cameo are simply descriptions of the coins appearance and has nothing to do with the grade (or level of preservation). You will notice that modern proofs are almost always deep cameo, but this is just the result of the way that modern dies are laser etched. Back in the day, the dies were pickled to highlight the devices, then the fields were polished. The pickling worked well with the first few coins, but it would fade fast resulting in very few surviving deep cameo early proofs.[/QUOTE]
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