High AU details? Cleaned/retoning maybe. Reverse looks more so than the obv. There are a few minor dings and bumps that make me think it saw brief circulation.
The "one sided woody" effect is also seen on coins
Struck Through Grease -- I have an 1866 with just such a situation.
Moderately strong clashed dies (you can see the faint outline of the right wreath opposite the left side of the bust, and on the reverse, the forehead profile line down through the nose bridge shows up as a clash mark running through the C in CENT; you can also see the clash from the date in the rev. shield lines, and traces of the feathers right of T in CENT.
A keeper for the clash, regardless of any other issues, at least in my book
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Edited by paralyse
10/20/2022 12:27 pm