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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 553745, member: 16510&quot;]<b>Look at coins, look at coins, look at coins!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Look at coins, look at coins, look at coins!</p><p>Instead how trying to explain what one is why don&#039;t you get a Red Book and read about it, learn about it, go to shops or shows, buy some proof sets, look at coins, look at coins - then after awhile you will know what a proof coin is.</p><p>If you are asking about how to tell them from others in a bunch of circulated or raw coin groups you generally won&#039;t find them there and if you did they would not be very high quality - the surfaces of proof coins or very easily damaged if not kept in protective holders and handled with great care.</p><p>As said before a proof coin is a coin struck by the mint especially for collectors using a completely different process than is used to strike coins made for general commerce.&nbsp; </p><p>A proof is really a method of manufacturing rather than a grade.</p><p>A proof is the highest art form or example of a mints ability to strike coins or a piece made strictly for presentation replicating the coiners art.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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