I have been into the new satin finish coins recently but while searching them out i have noticed something odd. Some holders have them as MS and some holders have them as SP am i missing something here? I thought they all were MS or did they make SP's as well? http://www.ebay.com/itm/2005-D-LINC...93?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item3a8a0332d1 http://www.ebay.com/itm/2005-D-LINC...76?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item416114e780
I was looking at a similar thing with some Canadian dollars. Why would they change? Still not quite clear Doug.
Not clear ? You can see the coins yourself, they are obviously the same, and yet they have different labels - one MS and one SP. They changed their labels. As to why, you can ask them but it's usually nothing more than marketing. They've changed labels several times just so they could different than NGC, they do it to set themselves apart, make themselves different. And in turn, NGC does the same kind of thing. For example, one uses UCAM and one uses DCAM - and yet they both mean the exact same thing. That's all this is.
Does SP stand for "special proof?" I always thought "SP" was short for "special" meaning they were special business strikes. I agree that it's just marketing by the TPG...but they coins aren't really proofs...right?
SP is for a specimen coin NGC and PCGS. From NGC; "Proof issues incorporate the same grades. Proof coins will be so noted with the use of the prefix PF for all grades 1 through 70. Less commonly, but where appropriate, coins displaying proof characteristics indicative of special handling that are not true proofs are described with the grade prefix PL, prooflike, or SP, specimen"
