2007- D John Adams Dollar With Peculiar Surface

Ok, I probably picked this up in the US in 2011 or thereabouts doing a little CRH. It's been tucked away safey until now. I've finally come back across it and realised it's got something really strange going on with the surface. I don't believe I've ever had a matte proof, and I might have just assumed this is one from a quick glance, but you can see the manufacturing standards are pretty poor if that's what it is. And it seems to me it's usually the portrait that is matte, not the background.


If someone did this at home it would have been done fairly quickly after release, which is always a possibility, but again the standards are quite poor in some places, and kind of good in others. The raised ring that goes from Liberty's book around to her right flank is quite shiny, but there are blocks of shiny bits in the middle of the field under her torch. The first bit (the shiny raised ring) would be pretty challenging to achieve, and odd to put the effort into that when the letters are pretty half and half in terms of what got sandblasted (or whatever was done to it). Same general issues on the obverse.

Thoughts?


Thanks in advance.