What do you see wrong with this IHC?

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It's nice,what are those marks?.

 

Feathers.

 

You mean aside from the odd reddish-brown marks on the obverse which look more like they are on the slab than the coin? Two arc-shaped lines between feathers 2 and 3 and some localized spots. Those marks don't show in the first photo, only the second.

I'm not certain it's a proof. Without doing any research on the die markers, it just doesn't look as sharply struck in the feathers as I would expect a proof to be. And the reverse also seems weak for a proof. I can't really see the edges well enough to give me some clues, even though the photos are pretty good. Secondly, unless I'm fooling myself, I think I see touches of high point breaks.

So my first guess is that it's not a proof. My second guess is that it's a proof but a circulated one. Give me time and I'll come up with enough guesses so that all the bases are covered.

 

Exactly my thoughts… maybe not a proof, but rather a PL coin?

 

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Ok now i see they go with the arrow.The toning makes it hard to tell I thought they were some kind of a anomaly at first.

 

Is that die chip above the 19 in the date?

 

another try,the date position is wrong for a proof just a very nice well struck business strike.

 

There isn't a Mark here. Just a penny.

 

+1
I don't know much about copper so I probably should stay out of this lol.

 

If not a proof, a well struck commercial...

 

It's not a proof. Probably just an error when the label was made.

 

Yep, I agree not proof. Although when I read the title, "
What do you see wrong with this IHC"
I was looking for something with the coin, not the label.

 

The label seems a bit odd, but the coin looks great, in my opinion.

 

My avatar is a red proof 1883. Compare that one with yours.

 

Can you post some pictures?

 

Larry, are you thinking of returning it to ANACS?

 

No. It's too old for that.

 

When I first saw it, the word “Proof” didn’t enter my mind. It looks like a nice R&B business strike.