1999 December Quarter With Frosted Cameo Obverse

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CanadianCollector Valued Member Canada 306 Posts	Posted 10/17/2012 01:02 am I found these in a roll of quarters I opened at work this past weekend. The whole obverse of the December quarter has a "frosted" cameo on it. The October quarter, like all of my others from the same series, has a mirror finish on the obverse. Could this quarter have been from a proof or mint set? Could the frosted finish on the December quarter be the result of being struck on new dies? Both quarters seem to have seen little circulation. The pictures bring out tons of scratches that are barely visible in hand on both coins. Thanks in advance! Edited by CanadianCollector 10/17/2012 1:47 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Bm0ney Pillar of the Community Canada 1005 Posts	Posted 10/17/2012 3:37 pm Frosted proof silver are non magnetic. Report this Post to the Staff
CanadianCollector Valued Member Canada 306 Posts	Posted 10/18/2012 01:10 am Its magnetic. Is the frosted finish the result of new dies then? Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10463 Posts	Posted 10/18/2012 01:19 am Could be many things. New dies, polished dies, different pressure setting on one of the presses, variable annealing temperature, how the blanks were treated... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
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