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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheFinn, post: 3183214, member: 90102&quot;][ATTACH=full]820608[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]820607[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Branch Mint &quot;proofs&quot; should really be notated as Specimens.&nbsp; Canada didn&#039;t issue true proofs until 1967 because they didn&#039;t have the capability to make true proofs, so they called them specimens.&nbsp; A specimen is a special coin that didn&#039;t meet the criteria of a proof.&nbsp; It may have had specially prepared dies, but not planchets, or were not at least double-struck.&nbsp; Nothing wrong with calling them something that is a term well known in the numismatic community.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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