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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;physics-fan3.14, post: 3174567, member: 19165&quot;]Doug, I don&#039;t really know how to define Specimen. That&#039;s one of the reasons I wanted to have this conversation. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t consider anything after 1817 to be a specimen strike, then what would you call something specially struck between 1817 and 1964? There were special strikings that weren&#039;t proofs and weren&#039;t business strikes - they were somewhere in between. Presentation strikes? Or some other term? </p><p><br /></p><p>My biggest problem with the current Morgan under discussion is that the coin just appeared, looks really nice, and they call it a specimen. To me, a Specimen should be well documented and with some evidence that it was a special strike, beyond &quot;it just looks unusually nice.&quot; The same applies to pre-1817 coins, such as that nonsense so-called specimen 1794 dollar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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