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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Just Carl, post: 553842, member: 4552&quot;]For one thing, WELCOME TO THE FORUM. </p><p>As to your question I suspect you are asking if you see one in change, how would you know it is or isn&#039;t a proof coin. Of course if you see a package at a coin store or coin show or somewhere and it states proof coins, you would know that those are proof coins. </p><p>Unfortunately lately due to the economy and just normal criminal activities, coin collections are vanishing. Criminals, as a rule, are not numismatically inclined, so they just discard coins as coins. Many are turned over to a bank, coin counting machine in a store or just spent as money everywhere. Proof coins as well as many other coins are poping up in change lately. </p><p>The problem with a proof coin is it is basically only a very, very mirror like coin. In change this slowly deminishes though. To complicate this even more there are people that polish coins for numerous reasons. Some to demonstrate a metal polish, some to experiment, some to attempt to sell a coin as new. Such polished coins could and do appear as a proof so you have to actually know if that specific coin could have ever been a proof. </p><p>Nothing is ever easy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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