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Message:: [QUOTE="Marshall, post: 742801, member: 21705"]I'm quite confident in the S-290 attribution. The leaf under D on the reverse is the easiest place to look for the distinction between the S-290 and the S-291 once you've figured out it's a small date (just right of upright on the S-290 and under the curve on the S-291). Look at the leaf under the final A of America if you can't determine whether it's a large date or small date and need to distinguish between reverses A and C (both are just right of the upright of D but the S-288 has a leaf under the left upright of the A while the S-290's leaf is under the center of the final A). As far as grading goes, I would call it a nice F-12, but many old time EACers would call it VG since they are notoriously hard graders. VF-20 is what I would expect to see as the minimum grade at a shop and I wouldn't be surprised to see it marked XF which is really over the top for a coin with so little hair detail..[/QUOTE]