What the heck is a reverse proof?

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• RYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 25, 2006 10:36PM

  Frost in the fields, mirror on the devices. Apparently some foreign mints have been doing this for a while.

  My Box of 20: https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/box-20/ryks-gold-box-20/17132

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• tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭

  August 25, 2006 10:38PM

  Canada has a few of them.
  
  

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• Newb Posts: 1,401

  August 25, 2006 10:59PM

  
  
  
  What's up with that reverse??

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,860 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 25, 2006 11:03PM

  The platinum business strikes are like this---mirrored devices and frosty fields.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
  "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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• tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭

  August 25, 2006 11:03PM

  It's a hologram. That is an untouched picture. I got the lighting just right to reflect the hologram.

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• stev32k Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭

  August 25, 2006 11:32PM

  Thanks for the responses. That's interesting I wonder how the reverse gold and silver proofs will look in hand and if the three coin gold set is really worth $2,610.

  Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,860 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 25, 2006 11:57PM

  When will they go on sale? From what I've read, the reverse proof is only available with the set and with a limit of 10,000 sets it may be a quick sellout and an instant winner.

  Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
  "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
  "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

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• stev32k Posts: 2,098 ✭✭✭

  August 26, 2006 12:37AM

  They go on sale at noon next Wednesday (the 30th). If this is the only year they make the reverse proof it should be a big winner. It they continue to make them every year it might not be a winner at all.

  Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard drive?

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• Coinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 26, 2006 12:55AM

  I wonder how they do that. It would be hard to polish only the devices on the die. And, do they polish the portion of the planchet which has the device?

  Newman Numismatic Portal, www.NewmanPortal.org

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• hootchiegirl Posts: 222

  August 26, 2006 1:03AM

  I always find reverse proofs to be more beautiful like on the kookabura's the big kilo ones rock

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• Baley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 26, 2006 5:44AM

  The platinum business strikes are like this---mirrored devices and frosty fields.
  
  until 2003.

  Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

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• Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭

  August 26, 2006 6:24PM

  
  
  << <i>I wonder how they do that. It would be hard to polish only the devices on the die >>
  
  
  You polish the whole die, put 'protection over the devices and lettering, then sandblast the dieface.
  
  
  
  << <i> do they polish the portion of the planchet which has the device? >>
  
  
  No. If you tried to do that then you would have to VERY carefully position every planchet before striking.

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• Coindexter Posts: 1,074

  August 26, 2006 8:14PM

  Israel put out a bunch or really attractive reverse proofs in the 70s. The effect is very nice and offers tons of eye appeal. I'm surprised the mint didn't do something along these lines sooner. I think the 2001 Buffalo commem would've looked pretty cool as a reverse proof.

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• pf70collector Posts: 6,748 ✭✭✭

  August 26, 2006 8:31PM

  The mint website has images of the 20th anniversary ASE's. usmint.gov.

  Montana State Quarter Die Clash
  
  Box of 20

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