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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 1396640, member: 24633&quot;]This is another I&#039;ve posted before. Again, this is for the benefit of the newer members who may not have seen it. This 2005-S Silver Proof KS SQ was one of two with the die gouge on the bison that I received from the Mint. Since I had ordered two sets for myself and two for a friend, I felt that it was only fair that he should have one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Supposedly, another person in the southwest US had ordered 10 sets, kept one for himself and distributed the others to relatives as gifts. He hadn&#039;t realized that all 10 sets had the die gouge on the bison, and by the time he reported the error to Coin World, I had already made Billy Crawford aware of it and he posted photos in his Die Variety News.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, these 12 have been the only ones reported, and it was added to the newest Cherrypickers Guide, 5th Edition, Volume II as FS-S25-2005S-KS-901. It is interesting to note that the authors of the CPG feel that there may be more existing, but unreported. Personally, I think it may be rather unlikely that there are more out there since it has been alomst 7 years since their release, but more importantly, because the inspection process for the proof coins is much stricter. This die gouge is very visible to the naked eye, and you would think that other specimens would have been caught before leaving the Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is most interesting about it is that the die gouge had to have occurred before the application of the cameo to the die, because, as you can see from the photo, there is no break in the cameo at all. What I find particularly satisfying is that NGC graded this error PF70 ULTRA CAMEO. How often is it that you find a &quot;perfect&quot; error?</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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