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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 2513581, member: 46237&quot;]Exactly. I don&#039;t agree with that definition either. Really what makes a proof a proof is the intent when it is struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a mint decided to specially prepare their planchets and dies and strike their coins twice and then released them as business strikes, they would clearly be considered proof-like business strikes, not proofs. Likewise, if a specially prepared die strikes a specially prepared planchet once and the intent is to create a proof, it is clearly a proof.</p><p><br /></p><p>But intent is hard to prove. All you have to look at is the coin most of the time. Here is where mint records and other knowledge about a type can help with the determination, especially with die markers. I&#039;ve seen coins I would attribute as proofs that are attributed as proof-like, and vice versa. Why? Mint records for one don&#039;t indicate proofs were struck, and for another the records show proofs. But of course mint records aren&#039;t always reliable and there&#039;s no way to tell if a coin was actually intended to be a proof or is just a proof-like strike from proof dies intended to be a business strike, even if proofs were recorded as struck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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