Quote: "Sjoelund"Please give the numista page for the coin next time, why should ALL the people trying to help you, find it by themselves?
Anyway you coin is just the most produced, not matte at all, you can see the matte in the numista catalog.
Can you provide the link to the page as you referenced it?
Quote: "Sjoelund"Please give the numista page for the coin next time, why should ALL the people trying to help you, find it by themselves?
Anyway you coin is just the most produced, not matte at all, you can see the matte in the numista catalog.
I was planning to discuss the coin in the photo, not the Numista page. I didn't consider it important.
Quote: "Sjoelund"Hopeless discussion, as said, the image in the numista link is the MATTE, you just have a scratched, circulated proof coin of little value.
Very very strange answer Ole. First of all, the coin in the Numista link is obviously the PROOF version. Secondly you say "you just have a scratched, circulated proof coin of little value" but the OP's coin is obviously NOT the proof version.
But then the big question, is it the matte or the special uncirculated version. When you have the coin in hand you normally should see the difference because matte really is matte. On a picture it's often more difficult to see. I think you have the matte version, unless there's some haze on your coin.
Quote: "Essor Prof"When you have the coin in hand you normally should see the difference because matte really is matte. On a picture it's often more difficult to see. I think you have the matte version, unless there's some haze on your coin.
Unfortunately, I don't understand what to compare with.
Matte - how is Matte (frosty) Proof? Or as a regular coin to circulate?
I have a Special UNC 1973, it seems to me that its minting is more ... BUNC, if I may say so, than the coin in the photo, the coin in the photo looks like a regular minting.
Quote: "coinshunter"Unfortunately, I don't understand what to compare with.
Matte - how is Matte (frosty) Proof? Or as a regular coin to circulate?
Matte never has frosty features like a proof coin. A special uncirculated coin is always bright and shiny but sometimes depending on the way and the circumstances it is stored, there can be a haze over it which takes a way that shiny look. A matte coin never is shiny, it's dull. I'll try to make a scan of some matte coins, although I don't have a Barbados 2 dollars matte coin, together with a special uncirculated coin. Then you should see the difference.
Quote: "coinshunter"the coin in the photo looks like a regular minting.
Your coin looks indeed like a regular minting coin. But there is no regular minting for that date, so it has to be the matte or the special uncirculated version, definitely not the proof version. Is there some haze on your coin?
Okay, it's indeed a bit difficult although more misleading. The official name of a matte is a matte proof. The difference between a matte proof and a regular proof is the matte proof don't have any frosted features. As you can see on your China coin and your half dollar, neither of them have frosted features.
A comparison between your matte proof 1/2 dollar and my regular proof 1/2 dollar:
Quote: "Essor Prof"matte proof don't have any frosted features
I do not agree. They are different. Some really do not have frosty details, just a double blow, but without polishing and matting, others - vice versa are completely frosty, have no mirror polishes.
The devices and field of a Franklin Mint Matte coin are both dull and frosty. The devices and field of a Franklin Mint uncirculated coin are glassy, smooth, shiny. A Franklin Mint Proof coin has frosty devices and mirror fields..
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