Looks to have to been deftly toned with some lovely deep charcoal Deller's Darkener Shoe Polish for Silver. Coin is an absolute steal even at more than $3000!!!
This is a good thread - more cowbell, please!
As an aside, if you do a runthrough of auction archive examples of 1641 Gelderland pieces, there are some nice mostly level/round planchets with even strikes and full or nearly so legends... atypically so for what we think of for the average lion dollar.
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