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Mint estimates 2007 W platinum Proof "Frosted Freedom" mintage

derrybderryb Posts: 38,568 ✭✭✭✭✭
Coin World is reporting that the US mint "believes" the release of the following number of 2007 W platinum eagle proofs with the "Frosted Freedom" variety:

$100 one ounce - 12 coins
$50 half ounce - 21 coins
$25 quarter ounce - 21 coins
$10 tenth ounce - no coins

Frosted freedom strikes were the result of initial pre-production minting before the decision was made for the final approved coin to have the word "FREEDOM" mirrored to make it stand out. Mint official states Frosted variety coins were "inadvertently placed in the production stream while preparing for an internal audit."

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

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    BaronVonBaughBaronVonBaugh Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭✭
    This sounds like these should be considered patterns instead of an error then.
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 33,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Perhaps "Trial Strike" would be a more appropriate description.
    Not sure yet what to call them.
    TD
    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    derrybderryb Posts: 38,568 ✭✭✭✭✭
    a variety being called a "pre-production piece" by the US Mint. TD is dead on.

    Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

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