I normally reserve my opinion on cases of authenticity as it is not my field but Dave made some good points and I will add some points I found interesting.
The environmental damage , to me , has it's good and questionable points. I have enclosed some pics of coins that I have personally dug while metal detecting to illustrate what I see.
On the coin in question the rough areas that I see in the lower protected parts of the coin are not what I would expect from environmental damage. The high spots are rounded and surrounded by vein like lower areas . What I would expect to see are lower rounded pits that form vein like higher areas. My 1909 shows what I would expect to see, though an extreme example.
The part the looks to be expected is the color of the damage at the word GOD. A rust color that comes from the ground leaching out parts of the metal, and that does remind me of the corroded color of my pictured 1928 cent.
I have unearthed a lot of environmentally damaged coins.
Just my observations.


