{"id":1178,"date":"2025-03-14T03:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T03:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/prooflike-what-does-this-coin-collecting-term-really-mean\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T03:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T03:47:53","slug":"prooflike-what-does-this-coin-collecting-term-really-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/prooflike-what-does-this-coin-collecting-term-really-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Prooflike \u2013 What Does This Coin Collecting Term Really Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-224551\" src=\"https:\/\/coinweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Prooflike_Morgan_Dollar_SB2.webp\" alt=\"A Prooflike 1880-CC Morgan dollar. Image: Stack\u2019s Bowers \/ CoinWeek.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Prooflike 1880-CC Morgan dollar. Image: Stack\u2019s Bowers \/ CoinWeek.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By <strong>Charles Morgan<\/strong> and <strong>Hubert Walker<\/strong> for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coinweek.com\/author\/coinweek-notes\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CoinWeek Notes<\/a><\/strong> \u2026..<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(adj.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Prooflike<\/strong>\u201d is a term used to describe a business-strike coin\u2013especially <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coinweek.com\/morgan-dollar-1878-1921-a-collectors-guide\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coinweek.com\/peace-dollar-1922-1935-a-collectors-guide\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Peace Silver Dollars<\/a><\/strong>\u2013in which all of the fields, and possibly the devices, reflect two to four inches of depth. These coins have a nearly mirrored finish and are the product of the first strikes off of a highly polished die. If the conditions are right, perhaps only the first few hundred strikes will exhibit this characteristic.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coinweek.com\/tag\/us-mint-news\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">United States Mint<\/a><\/strong> makes no effort to separate these coins from the other, more typical business strikes, so Prooflike coins are often found with bag marks from coin-on-coin contact. Because of the reflective finish on the coins surfaces, even minor abrasions are quite noticeable on Prooflike coins.<\/p>\n<p>Business strikes with especially deeply reflective mirrors are referred to as \u201c<strong>DMPL<\/strong>\u201d or \u201c<strong>Deep Mirror Prooflike<\/strong>\u201d. <strong>PCGS<\/strong> grants this attribution only to coins that are in Mint State with reflectivity on both sides of the coin at between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgs.com\/news\/differences-between-proof-and-prooflike-coins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">two and four inches away<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prooflike and Deep Mirror Prooflike coins may sell for a premium, depending on the series.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Further Reading on Prooflike Coins<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/coinweek.com\/morgan-dollars-for-beginners-proof-vs-prooflike\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Dollars for Beginners: Proof vs. Prooflike<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/coinweek.com\/prooflike-what-does-this-coin-collecting-term-really-mean\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prooflike \u2013 What Does This Coin Collecting Term Really Mean?<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/coinweek.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CoinWeek: Rare Coin, Currency, and Bullion News for Collectors<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Prooflike 1880-CC Morgan dollar. Image: Stack\u2019s Bowers \/ CoinWeek. By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes \u2026.. \u00a0 (adj.) \u201cProoflike\u201d is a term used to describe a business-strike coin\u2013especially Morgan and Peace Silver Dollars\u2013in which all of the fields, and possibly the devices, reflect two to four inches of depth. These coins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-finance"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 19:53:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}