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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 412540, member: 112&quot;]It is in my opinion. Yes, the coin I pictured is a Proof. And I can very clearly recall seeing for the first time what was described to me as black beauty over 40 years ago - and it was a Proof and looked just like the coin I pictured. Yes, it is a blue color, but the blue is so dark that it is almost black, and that of course is where the name comes from.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until this thread, I can&#039;t even recall a business strike coin being called a black beauty. If ANACS wishes to call a sintered planchet nickel a black beauty, well OK. I can only consider it a marketing ploy by the new company to get business for no other TPG will slab a coin as such. They will say sintered planchet error, or copper washed error, but they will not label it a black beauty. They will call it instead what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Among old time collectors black beauties are the stuff of legend, you&#039;ll find very little information on them - but just about any collector over the age of 50 will have certainly heard of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>So names being what they are, they are often given to other things undeserving of the name. But I would ask you - of the 2 examples posted, which is deserving of the name ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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