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<p>[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 1415367, member: 36230"]With all due respect, Pumpkin, I believe this to be an exercise in futility. If you think there to be something special and/or unique about the coin, this may have been better served by starting a thread to point this out instead of using a poll.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said and taking the rather poor image into consideration, nothing that I can see says proof IMO. The rims, even if lightly circulated, are not reminiscent of a proof strike, nor is the weakness exhibited on other areas. I am also hesitant to say SMS for the same reasons. If anything, I have a feeling that you believe this coin to be a PL business strike, which would also explain why you chose to image the coin at this angle. Of course this is just a guess going on what little you have provided.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, you could have shown the obverse and simply blacked-out the area around the date.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 1415367, member: 36230"]With all due respect, Pumpkin, I believe this to be an exercise in futility. If you think there to be something special and/or unique about the coin, this may have been better served by starting a thread to point this out instead of using a poll. That said and taking the rather poor image into consideration, nothing that I can see says proof IMO. The rims, even if lightly circulated, are not reminiscent of a proof strike, nor is the weakness exhibited on other areas. I am also hesitant to say SMS for the same reasons. If anything, I have a feeling that you believe this coin to be a PL business strike, which would also explain why you chose to image the coin at this angle. Of course this is just a guess going on what little you have provided. BTW, you could have shown the obverse and simply blacked-out the area around the date.[/QUOTE]
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