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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 2991967, member: 112&quot;]Good question.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Better question ! </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess it depends on who ya listen to. Over the years the TPGs have kinda gone one way at one time and then changed and gone another way - calling the exact same coins by different names/designations.</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS has this on their web site - </p><p><br /></p><p>Specimen</p><p>Term used to indicate special coins struck at the Mint from 1792-1816 that display many characteristics of the later Proof coinage. Prior to 1817, the minting equipment and technology was limited, so these coins do not have the “watery” surfaces of later Proofs nor the evenness of strike of the close collar Proofs. PCGS designates these coins SP.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not that many years ago a Specimen coin was a special coin struck for special reasons, they were not intended as Proofs, not intended for circulation, not intended to be used for anything really other than as an example for the mint to examine. In other words it didn&#039;t have anything to do with the finish on them.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, yes the mint did make presentation pieces, and they did that every now and then for a lot of years. But presentation pieces are different than specimens because presentation pieces were minted with the intention of giving them to somebody special. They even made special boxes for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The practice of making presentation pieces dates back to long before the US Mint even existed, and back then they were called presentation pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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