I guess the significant remaining luster pulled it up to AU. Sure, the strike is soft but there is a lot of friction over fields, Liberty's cheek, and the eagle's breast and legs. Incomplete feathers on the left (facing) wing I presume is mostly strike weakness.
Wanted to circle back to this one . VAM 22 Has a messed up E to begin with and a stressed die but looking closer at this one it looks like it took a hit in the area as well. it is straight graded but should I be real concerned it will get called out at PCGS on crossover? looks like 3 hits in the same spot near the E It doesn't bother me and it looks to have same luster in the hit and toning as rest of the coin . Maybe something happened when it was struck? It dont know.
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