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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3174008, member: 112&quot;]It says &quot;sometimes&quot; because not all of those coins are called Specimens, the term is reserved for only those coins, from that period, with the Proof-like surfaces and many Proof characteristics.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until recent years, when the TPGs began using the designation indiscriminately, no other US coin has been referred to as a Specimen coin. For almost hundred years the term was applied to those coins and just those coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Understand, I&#039;m not saying the Morgan isn&#039;t deserving of some designation - it&#039;s just not deserving of that one ! Any more than the extremely common modern coins are that the TPGs also label as Specimen. PCGS, and NGC as well, have apparently decided to use the term simply for these coins simply because they want to. Would you or anybody else say there is ANY similarity between that Morgan and the modern clad coins that they assign the term to ? Those modern coins aren&#039;t special, not in any way. And yet both are called Specimens aren&#039;t they !</p><p><br /></p><p>If they want to give coins a designation, fine, come up with a new and different word. But don&#039;t pick one arbitrarily that has been reserved to describe one specific group of coins, and only that group of coins, for a hundred years. Doing things like that removes any and all meaning from numismatic terminology.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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