Help with this Flying Eagle cent

Something bothers me about the surfaces of this coin, but I can't put my fingers on it.

(Literally... I don't have the coin in hand ;-)

Can someone tell me what caused this rough, scaly texture on both the fields *and* devices? I don't think it's been cleaned...?

 

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Purely a guess, but would this be considered the "orange peel effect" of a deteriorated die?

 

Whizzed possibly?

 

My guess would be either it's the coin's surfaces, or it's a bad lighting, bad camera JPEG compression, or maybe they over sharpened the images in processing, which can lead to grainy fields.

I'm thinking most likely it's the camera seeing the light reflecting off the flow lines of the luster and then pixellating it to death.

 

I’d bet that it is a nice, original coin struck from worn-out dies.

 

https://www.usacoinbook.com/item/1857-braided-hair-half-cent-ms-63-86203/

Same seller is selling an obvious fake 1857 half cent.

 

Thanks, @TypeCoin971793 . That's enough for me to stay away.

 

My first thought was heavily whizzed. A whizzed coin often gets that stippled appearance in the fields.

 

Could also be a light acid etching from a cleaning attempt.

 

As I understand it a whizzed coin will look doubled in certain areas.
The doubling is a function of the high speed rotation of the wheel doing the polishing.
It actually melts the coin's surface where it was applied and pushes that melt off the edge of a feature and deposits where the feature meets the field it's on.

With this coin I like the "orange peel" possibility better.

But I like the counterfeit possibility best.

 

Thanks, everyone.

Does anyone else think that @kanga might be right with the Counterfeit Hypothesis?

 

Link to actual sale if it helps at all.

https://www.usacoinbook.com/item/1858-flying-eagle-cent-small-letters-au-58-224017/

 

It's genuine IMO. Look at the rim cuds on both sides. Ya don't see those on fakes.

 

Thanks for the input. I appreciate it!

What do you think could be responsible for the surfaces then? Any ideas?

 

Just cleaned.

 

That's a very bad fake.

 

What exactly makes you say that it's been cleaned?

 

The surfaces look unnatural.

 

You do if they used a coin that had the cuds as the model for their fake dies. But in this case I believe it is just a case of cleaning not counterfeiting.

 

That one looks very suspicious at first glance, and before reading comments...I'm not a pro on these cents...just a gut feeling about it.