DMPL?

chris1218

Even with the best photo in the world I couldn't determine DMPL. You will have to do this yourself. Without magnification, place a standard business card or other 12pt font at least six inches away from the coin and see if you can read the text in the majority of the obverse and reverse field. If you can, it's probably DMPL. I believe PL is 3 inches away.

I would be pleased with MS64. But, I'm not sure on how to pick the onesto send out for gradeing. Obviously that 1878 S is aa candidate, don't you think.

Deep Mirror Prooflike. A measure of the reflectivity of the surface of a coin. As SeatedNut mentions, the DMPL designation is for a coin reflective enough that 12pt type can be clearly read in it from a distance of 6" minimum (in my experience, PCGS at least holds to an even higher standard).

Thank you Dave that was very informattive

Seated--I can totally empathize, I have spent less time on the site researching and posting answers that people aren't going to read anyway and more time learning new songs on my guitar. I've got 'Spirit in the Sky' pretty passable right now.

I'm not sure why you guys are all of a sudden copping an attitude. If your participation here is tied to the praise you receive in return for doing it, perhaps you're in the wrong line of work. The value of your contribution is not indicated by the 11 times people have posted in this thread, but by the 80 people who have read it.

I have a thread going below this one - it'd be nice if even one of the 30+ people who have read it would post a comment, but I'm not going to lose my religion if nobody does. I'd like it better if I got more feedback on the pictures for which I invested $1000+ into camera equipment and hundreds of hours of learning, but sometimes you just don't hit the wave and that's all there is to it.

But remember, the true value of what you do here goes to those who never mention having seen it, and they greatly outnumber the people who do mention it.

If you're burned out, take a vacation. You're always welcome here; both of you have well and truly earned a place in the community. But don't come in and defecate on somebody else's thread because you're having a bad moment. You're not helping them learn, you're not helping me keep control of the environment, and you're not helping yourselves stay interested in the hobby either.

You Too Seatednut

Very informative thread , so how much does being DMPL add to the value of a coin ? and does that designation apply to all denominations ?