1973 Nickel Voyageur Dollar PEI Reverse - Mirror Like Coin?

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Altaira Pillar of the Community Canada 2519 Posts	Posted 09/07/2014 12:13 am Was it because the die had just been polished or is it not a business strike? Those are my fingers mirrored on the coin. On the reverse, I could see my face reflected on it up to six inches, four inches for a clear reflection. on the obverse, it is clear up to just over six inches. Report this Post to the Staff

SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 09/07/2014 9:09 pm The rims speak volumes... it is what I would call an "impaired proof-like" (meaning it originally came from a proof-like set, but had been cut out, and jostled around in coin dealer ice-cream buckets, with lots of contact with other nickel dollars, for a couple of decades). "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
Altaira Pillar of the Community Canada 2519 Posts	Posted 09/08/2014 02:39 am I'm impressed you can tell from a photo that the rims are square, I've never noticed it before. It doesn't have frosting in the devices. Did it get worn off rubbing or is it normal that prooflikes sometimes doesn't have frosting? Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 09/08/2014 11:41 am Most proof-like strikes, and specimen strikes before 1996, did not have frosting. Only the proof-like coins struck with fresh dies, will have the frosted effect on the coin. "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
Altaira Pillar of the Community Canada 2519 Posts	Posted 09/09/2014 12:59 pm I checked ebay for prooflikes and a lot of them aren't frosted. Are proofs always frosted? If post-1996 coins have frosting on all of them, are they frosted a different way? This is an interesting "dump" I picked up. Report this Post to the Staff
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