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Proof or not proof that is the question

MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
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Please tell me if you think this coin is a proof coin. We all know what a proof coin looks like even bad examples of one.
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  • AuldFartteAuldFartte Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭✭
    I haven't seen many of those proofs, but I have my doubts about this one. Pic is just too fuzzy to make out enough proof "sharpness".
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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Too lousy a scan to tell.
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    It doesn't look like a proof to me
  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Doesn't look like a proof, are there any diagnostics for the proofs vice busness strikes?

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  • MSD61MSD61 Posts: 3,382 ✭
    "Doesn't look like a proof, are there any diagnostics for the proofs vice busness strikes?"

    Yes Steve there is. It is important to note between a proof striking and a high quality circulation strike. A proof strike will have the frosted devices, mirror fields and the sharply defined edges that are characteristics of proof coins. Where as the high quality circulation strikes will not. In most cases an Irish proof coin of this series placed in circulation would become indistinguishable from a circulation striking after a very short time. In 1928 6,001 proof sets were produced then in 1961 50 sets of of high quality 1928 restrikes were struck. Outside of the proof 1966 10 shillings sets (20,000) Irish pre decimal proofs are hard to come by.

    What I feel what the seller has here is a cirulation strike and not a proof coin. There is no evidence of proof characteristics.
    Omnicoin
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