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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jaelus, post: 7830327, member: 46237&quot;]A new pickup for my Austro-Hungarian prooflike set:</p><p><br /></p><p>Hungary 1905KB AU 20 Korona</p><p>KM-486 (1892-1915)</p><p><b>NGC MS63★ PL</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Admittedly I paid a bit too much for this one, however, as NGC is very stingy with handing out <i>both</i> the star designation <i>and</i> the PL designation for world coins, I figured this must really be something special in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>It certainly doesn&#039;t disappoint. These are the deepest mirrors I&#039;ve seen on an Austro-Hungarian gold issue, and the example is fully and sharply struck at the hand holding the sceptre (including the fine details of the fingers) as well as at the hand holding the orb, and the pouch on the belt. I&#039;ve probably seen hundreds of examples of this type, and I don&#039;t recall ever seeing a <i>fully</i> struck example before. I have one of the only two other PL examples of this coin, an MS61PL, and while it has great contrast, frost, and strike, it is not as fully struck as this example. Oddly, the edge of this coin also appears mirrored and there is a distinct wire rim, which you can see fairly well in the top photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>If someone told me this was a proof or similar presentation strike, I would believe them. I haven&#039;t seen any records from this period of proofs having been struck, however, they clearly do exist for the larger 5 corona/korona coins (1900-1909) as well as for the 1892 corona and for some of the gold issues of similar size from the 1880s.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1345401[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1345402[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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