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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BR549, post: 1046715, member: 7110&quot;]In order to tell the difference between a well struck business coin, SMS and proof coinage of 1964, you have to really know the series.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only people who knew how the dies were prepared or what happen to them after the specimen coins were struck are long gone. Perhaps the Mint Director of the time Eva Adams could have answered your question, but speculation is that working dies were polished but the planchets used were not of proof quality, which resulted in a more satiny finish than of the brilliant proofs of this era.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the finished coins were handled differently after the coining process. There are minimum amount of handling marks or blemished on these coins, perhaps a proto-type of the next generation of Special Mint Sets of 1965-67.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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