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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Jags, post: 8102609, member: 78719&quot;]I have not ever heard of a designated specimen strike being superior to a proof, and would take exception to that.</p><p>In the OP, the depicted coin we were given the choice of business, proof or specimen. If held to that, then it certainly is NOT a business strike and it just does not stand up to proof standards as I look at the photograph. Therefore deduction leads to us choosing &quot;specimen&quot;. That having been said, it appears to be more of a prooflike strike. Shaving hairs is not a specialty of mine and frankly tends to irritate slightly.</p><p>In the Norweb sale of Canadian coins, there were many pages devoted to separating specimen and proof. Reading it frankly left me wanting as IMHO there were contradictions in there; &quot;pigeonholing&quot; does not really work and there are so many exceptions that it becomes clear to me at least that there is really more of a sliding scale from business to proof with PL and &quot;specimen&quot; generally being somewhere along the middle points of this spectrum.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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