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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Leadfoot, post: 624549, member: 2972&quot;]Not exactly.&nbsp; Remember, dies can be made prooflike by repolishing them, so a &quot;worn&quot; die can be make prooflike again through polishing.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not necessarily. Sometimes dies aren&#039;t prooflike when they start out, so the first coin off the press wouldn&#039;t necessarily be prooflike.&nbsp; While I&#039;m not sure about this series and how they were made, this is certainly true of large cents of this time, and I suspect gold is no different.&nbsp; However, it is true that over time a prooflike die will become lustrous after being used.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes it&#039;s true, other times it&#039;s not.&nbsp; Depends on how polished the die was when it was first used.&nbsp; If you remember that polishing the die is a separate (and later) step from making the die, it helps to make more sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the above IMO, and recognizing I&#039;m not nearly as knowledgeable in how die preparations were done for gold coinage of this period....Mike[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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