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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Jags, post: 5229085, member: 78719&quot;]Happy Saturday y’all!</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently found the below coin on eBay - unusually enough it was not in the usual holder of the like-dated proof coins and looked a bit different to my hopefully practiced eye. </p><p><br /></p><p>it is a beautiful design IMO with the nymph Amphitrite depicted and struck by the Franklin Mint in 1985 - this coin has many traits of the (U) uncirculated FM pieces, but is not recorded in Krause in the way the 1983 coin is. That itself is not necessarily a major issue since records at the FM were and are rather poor.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will show some pictures and see what readers think:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216848[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1216849[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1216850[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1216851[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1216852[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1216853[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;The pictures are as follows:</p><p>Picture of my own proof with the new coin obverse and the reverse </p><p>Pictures of proof encapsulated and then closeup of my proof</p><p>Picture of obverse of my purchased coin </p><p>I then took a picture of the Heritage archived (U) 1983 Barbados coin, which may have some distortion. </p><p><br /></p><p>In case the reader has not gathered, the key difference between proof and (U) uncirculated is the device contrast to field on the former and lack mostly thereof on the later. The uncirculated coins are quite prooflike as I have tried to show on this and other posts with the exception of the poor Guyana coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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