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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26569865, member: 10461&quot;]I’ve seen some other British proofs from the 1770s.&nbsp; Good question re. what the first proof coin was.&nbsp; I think there were some in the 1600s but they might not have looked like our modern concept of what a proof is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_coinage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_coinage" rel="nofollow">the Wikipedia article</a> on proof coinage says 1662, and shows a gold English coin of Charles II.&nbsp; The first US proofs were struck in 1817.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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