A branch mint proof seated half!
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As far as the rest of the stuff mentioned, see previous very skeptical comments on “branch mint proofs,” lunar green cheese, and a face on Mars.
PS: I was wrong and all the documentation was wrong – there are branch mint proofs. I just found a complete set! They are dated “1968” and all have the “S” mintmark. Now that’s settled once and for all!
Don't you remember there was a few 1968 dimes found w/o a mintmark?
They were even slabbed....
This coin fetched $3000 in the 1975 Stack sale as a "proof." For that time, a proof annotation with no qualifiers usually meant a coin of lower quality since choice, gem, etc were in use at that time. At $3000 if fetched money that was considerable for the time. My ex-1867-s quarter realized $1800 in that sale and is a $100K coin today. The 1901-s gem quarter (MS67 in 1990) fetched $5500. The 1891-0 quarter in Proof-like gem fetched over $5250 and the 1871 CC 25c in gem fetched $10,000+. Using those ratio's the 1861 SP half is a > $100K coin today. Possibly $150-$200K.
roadrunner
The "Specimen" classification from Breen was just catching on and I guess the cataloguer must have been confused with the new terminology.