Lowest grade Proof?

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  LanLord Posts: 11,756 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 6:03AM

  Somewhere there is a 1894s dime in PR4 (the icecream dime)

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  XpipedreamR Posts: 8,059 ✭✭

  November 10, 2003 6:07AM

  Along the same lines, this coin is kind of neat...
  
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  kranky Posts: 8,709 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 6:09AM

  That's interesting, I didn't know the 94-S dimes were graded PR.
  
  I thought there was differing opinions whether the 1856 FE cents were proof or business strikes, and I thought that I have read they get slabbed both ways. Were they all considered proofs at one time, and the possibility that some were business strikes came up later? I would be surprised if a proof coin worn down to VG could still be identified as a proof if there were also business strikes made.

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  LanLord Posts: 11,756 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 6:15AM

  here is some readin material about a higher grade PROOF 1894s dime

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  dollardude Posts: 1,263

  November 10, 2003 7:23AM

  I believe that occasionally, by mistake, some proof-only coins make their way into circulation. Those dates and mintmarks that are known to be proof-only and that accidentally circulate could, theoretically, receive a grade as low as PR01.

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  tjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭

  November 10, 2003 7:26AM

  I've seen a PCGS PR-06 Gobrect Dollar and a PR-04 Proof-only two cent piece.
  
  Proof only issues are the easiest to identify as a low-grade proof.
  
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  Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  November 10, 2003 9:48PM

  
  
  << <i>I thought there was differing opinions whether the 1856 FE cents were proof or business strikes, and I thought that I have read they get slabbed both ways. >>
  
  
  It depends on which die pair the coins came from. Only one pair, I believe it is the S-3 variety was used to make business quality strikes. Te problem was that PCGS does not do varieties so they wer not atributing 1856 cents to see which die pair they were and they just colled them Proof or MS based on general appearance. This lead to Proofs being slabbed as MS and MS coins in Proof slabs. After receiving many complains PCGS decided to drop the MS and now calls ALL 1856 cents Proofs whether they are or not.

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