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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bill in Burl, post: 7547567, member: 23692&quot;]This is the definition that the RCM (and later, Charlton in their annual guides) has for &quot;prooflike:&nbsp; &quot;Quality of choice coins obviously superior to circulation strikes, but whose surfaces are not as bright as those of other specimen coins.&nbsp; Struck using selected dies and planchets and on slower moving presses than for circulation coins&quot;.&nbsp; Canadian collectors rue the day that the RCM, and then the TPG&#039;s, started using that designation.&nbsp; Clouding everything, after the &quot;proof-like&quot; dies were done striking P-L&#039;s, they were used for circulation strikes.&nbsp; I don&#039;t collect &quot;bright and shiny&quot;, only Vicky large cent varieties, but have many friends who still argue about P-L coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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