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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 165338, member: 112&quot;]My statement stands and is reinforced by the comments taken from Tomaska&#039;s book. But it doesn&#039;t need to be really for all you need to do to see that it is true is to look at Proof US coins from their very beginning. For even the very first US Proofs were cameos when struck with new dies. This is because the Proof dies were specially prepared to produce coins with cameo devices. In the old days they sandblasted the devices to produce this effect. (Today they use lasers.) And as the dies struck more and more coins they wore down and the cameo effect ceased to occur. But if looking at the coins is not enough to convince you, perhaps this will. The following is a quote from Q. David Bowers - </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The term cameo with regard to Proofs refers to a Proof coin on which</p><p>the main design, most notably the portrait or central figure, has a frosted</p><p>or lustrous finish, while the fields or flat areas are deeply mirrorlike.</p><p>Just about all of the copper, nickel, silver, and gold Proof coins made at</p><p>the Philadelphia Mint from the early days, through the time of general</p><p>availability of Proofs to the public (1858), down to 1902, are cameo Proofs.</p><p>In 1902-3, someone at the Mint began polishing the deep recesses in the</p><p>Proof dies, and Miss Liberty on some Proofs of 1902, most all of 1903, and</p><p>some of later dates have &quot;polished&quot; rather than cameo portraits. Most copper</p><p>Proofs 1905-1909 (Indian), nickel Proofs 1905-1912), silver Proofs</p><p>1905-1915, and Liberty Head gold Proofs 1905-1907 revert to the cameo style.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see from the quote, Proof coins from the very beginning were designed to be cameos except for the brief period in the early 1900&#039;s when someone decided to change the look of Proofs. But they quickly reverted back to the cameo style.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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