Nice find! Was it found CRH? Although, I wouldn't hold it with bare fingers like that. Wear gloves. You don't want to leave fingerprints on a valuable coin like that. I'll contact Mike Diamond for this one.
Whatever happened, it doesn't look like a clean process. The railroad rims that I have seen posted here generally have a structured, struck coin profile (even though it's a striking error). Some of those areas look crushed or sheared. I would almost wonder at mechanical PMD, but the device smearing looks like it was produced during the strike.
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