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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kidkayt, post: 1359067, member: 7275&quot;]The ultimate finish impressed on the coin may be a combination of both blank prep and die prep.&nbsp; Given the enormous forces involved with multiple strikes by hardened dies on soft planchets it seems more likely that the die surface takes precedence.&nbsp; The burnishing process on the coins may mean that the coin will have few or fewer surface imperfections which are quite commonly seen in business strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I have 2 sets of the 25th Anniversary ASE.&nbsp; Finishes are almost the same for equivalents in each set.&nbsp; I suspect that some or most of the differences could be attributed to progressive die wear.&nbsp; TPG&#039;s seem to capitalize and mark coins (for example the UHR) as PL which could have been produced by worn dies but command huge premiums.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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