I picked this up earlier this week as a decent filler for my type set. It was covered in gunk, residue, and all sorts of things. After a few acetone baths, I'm left scratching my head as to what variety it is, which is why I am requesting your input and brainstorming power. Unfortunately, my laptop is being very uncooperative at the moment, but I managed to get some scope pictures uploaded, cropped, and hosted on imgur. Here's some screenshot pics of what I uploaded there, but with far lower resolution. The full resolution pics of these, and additional photos along with a short video are here on this imgur link: https://imgur.com/a/rKgv5jJ I am referencing this site: https://www.seateddimevarieties.com/pictorial/1871.htm for trying to figure out the variety, but it's not exactly matching up with any. If you can offer any help or opinions, it would be greatly appreciated! And yeah, it's still got a fair amount of crud stuck on it, even after a few long baths. Any tips on removing it, or just let it be? Thanks!!
The 8 and 7 have some light repunching / doubling going on, a broken S in States with doubling on the S-T-A and a level date. The reverse has a heavily bowed out M and lightly bowed N, and both sides have mirrored fields.
For a scope, those are great images. Most folks using a scope get really poor results. I like the coin as is. A few hours in acetone is enough. More won't help. I would stop there before any damage is done to the coin. Most of what I'm seeing on the coin is toning. You don't want to try removing that. I did a search for varieties but found nothing important.
I really like my scope because it's so good at getting in close without sacrificing resolution. And it takes 4K pictures / video onto a SD card. My laptop is getting up there in age but still was doing fine with the cropping and stuff until just recently. Either I learn Linux and delete Windows (as recommended by a family member) or deal with it being sluggish and freezing. Or... get a new unit?
