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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 1193171, member: 19423&quot;]Collector, even if your story is true and that it your coin wasn&#039;t struck from the primary die used to strike the rest of the 1909 VDB proofs, the other characteristics of a proof strike must be there.&nbsp; Mostly, you&#039;d be looking at the overall strike of the coin and the rims/edges of the coin.&nbsp; In looking just at the rims of your coin, it looks like a really nice business strike, not a proof.&nbsp; On a matte proof the rim will be flat all the way around the coin (your coin is close) and then will have a sharp drop off into the fields of the coin below (again yours is close).&nbsp; Here&#039;s one of my favorite 1909 VDB proofs for comparison (not my coin):</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.pcgs.com/TrueView/Medium/06622299.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A super high-res version of the image can be found here:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/TrueView/Large/06622299.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/TrueView/Large/06622299.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/TrueView/Large/06622299.jpg</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>On your coin the rims just don&#039;t match up... look at the rim from about 3 o&#039;clock to around 7 o&#039;clock on the reverse of your coin and compare to the proof I just posted.&nbsp; Your coin just doesn&#039;t have the same sharp drop off into the fields of the coin as a proof.&nbsp; Same goes for the top part of the rims on the obverse.&nbsp; At least that is what I&#039;m seeing in the photos provided.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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