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Moderator
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Not "camo", but "cameo" - named after the ancient engraving style that produces a similar effect. If you look at any decimal proof coin, you'll see the "cameo effect" - the contrast between highly polished background areas and frosted (non-reflective) design features. Most modern proof coins worldwide display this feature, as it has long been considered beautiful and desirable, though some have a "reverse cameo" where the background is frosted and the design is mirror-polished. And I'm not seeing any sign of either mirrored fields nor frosted designs in your coin either, so this coin is not a proof. Sorry. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
 Australia
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Thanks for your help I thought cameo was like cameo-pants but on a coin like this   |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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The following are pics of the two I've found in circulation. As you can see they don't like being circulated much with any contact marks really showing up!   Hope that helps explain the cameo |
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Valued Member
Australia
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 Thanks ps I dont own the coin I posted pic of anymore  iv only just come to realise how rare they are  |
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Valued Member
Australia
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Valued Member
Australia
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I have not noodled a proof coin yet but have found quite a few NCLT coins. They are usually the result of a burglary where the burglars just see them as a coin, so they are off to the local deli to spend them.
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Valued Member
Australia
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If you ever find yourself near the pokies, throw a ten dollar note in, take out 10 x $1, and repeat. You never know your luck. I've found a few mint marked coins... yet to find the mule I want.
Shame they're not worth a whole lot, but always an exciting find!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I have searched a lot of coins and never found a proof. I have found a few NCLT though.
I think that, like lots of things, it comes down to "right place, right time".
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I found a proof once but I didn't realise it - it looked like an uncirculated coin that had been scrapped on concrete to me, so I let it go.
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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I have some Proofs that I've noodled from circulation and will try to find them & post some images. No promises though.  life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Valued Member
Australia
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I got a very well worn $1 1991 proof in change a while back... knew as soon is I held it the edges were more square and it still has some shine in some parts of it.
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Valued Member
Australia
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Iv come to the conclusion buying rolls of coins is no good for me because I dont seem to find anything but if I look through my change Surprise I always find a few coins to a small hand full of keepers also I dont know what to do with all of my coins I'm sick of them sticking to my arms every time I type  I'm running out of spots I think I'm becoming a hoarder of coins and I'm not doing them any good |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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2x2s or Saflips are a good start. Once you have your coins individually in them you can start to file them into album pages or into trays that you can flip through. They will take up much less room that way and will look nice an neat presented together.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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I use saflips for all my circulation finds ( I even take some with me when I go away for work  ) they are great. But anything I put in my albums have to be in 2x2's because I can write on them and being self adhesive you can only use them once, with an saflip it can be reused time after time |
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Valued Member
Australia
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Great stuff I need to get some saflips, how many coins dose a folder hold?
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