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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HandsomeToad, post: 349832, member: 12965&quot;]<span style="color: black">Here are the problems I see on the obverse:</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black">- Fourth &amp; fifth stars from the bottom left have die clashes/spurs.</span></p><p><span style="color: black">- Stars on the left are more worn/flattened than the stars on the right.</span></p><p><span style="color: black">- The &quot;R&quot; in Liberty has a ribbon spur in the center of the loop.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black">Here are the problems I see on the reverse:</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black">- The mound the eagle is perched on is not as pronounced as I think it should be but that could be an illusion caused from the coin being cleaned (I didn&#039;t do it).</span></p><p><span style="color: black">- The eagle&#039;s claws are too bold taking into consideration the rock it&#039;s sitting on is weakly struck.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black">All of these can be caused by die wear, re-tooling of certain areas of the die, and other minting malformations and can be easily explained away but I would like to see another DBD with the same malformations to know for sure this is authentic.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ribbit,</p><p>Toad :smile</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ps: This is a Bolender 14 variety. Bolender 15 is the variety with the extra berries and the leaves are slightly different.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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