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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 3939292, member: 66&quot;]Depends on whether you are talking about US coins or say coins from Canada.&nbsp; For US it means a coin that is not a Business strike, and not a Proof, but something &quot;special&quot; has been done to it, they may not know what, and often there is no official Mint explanation as to what exactly was done or why.&nbsp; Examples would be the 1927 SP Buffalo nickels, or the special nickels that were in the Thomas Jeffereson and Botanical Gardens&nbsp; coin sets (those depending on the TPG and the time when they were slabbed have been called MS, Matte Proof, SMS, and SP.&nbsp; I think right now PCGS calls them SP and NGC calls them SMS.)&nbsp; The 1894 S dime and 1913 V Nickels, which were originally called MS, and then Proof, I believe are currently transitioning into being called SP.</p><p><br /></p><p>For Canadian coins they had sets that were better quality than their Business strikes, but not up to the quality of what they called Proofs.&nbsp; They were called Specimen sets and the coins in them are Specimen coins.&nbsp; (Frankly I can&#039;t tell them from proofs, and they were better quality than the proof coins we were making at the time.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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