The reverse damage is easy to ID. There must be a bunch of these out there hiding in collections.
@Iso808 post a couple more pictures from different angles. Reverse photo also might help. Check the edge for anything unusual.
It looks like struck through reeding to me....
I notice they all have a mole under the chin at the neck too.
I had a similar experience, cycling in the Civil War Century about a decade ago. I rode ahead of the people I was with, and when I got to Antietam...
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That toning is crazy. My eyes can't not see it as raised ridges across the coin.
I didn't guess because I was tired of being wrong. It looks pretty banged up in the True View for a gem so 65 surprises me. I would have been...
I wonder if you could predict what the mintages were by giving them one or two known mintages and using the relative frequency.
One of these has to be a winner for you, so I'll say 66 to 66+.
I completely missed the part where it was originally NGC, otherwise I would have totally gotten it... also wrong.
No I'm referring to the results of the two posts so far, zero changes in grade. I'm also 0 for 2 guessing.
MS65 to MS65. Since they've graded 285,266 coins for 1881-S, I'm just guessing that they're tough on them. That thing under OL is odd, looks like...
So you're 0 for 2.
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