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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 489340, member: 9270&quot;]Looks like the dies weren&#039;t properly aligned at the moment of the strike.</p><p>That would account for the progressive weakness as you go from 11 to 5 on the obverse.</p><p>Note that the stars go from having the central lines at 11 to almost disappearing at 5.</p><p>This is not unusual for coins from that time.</p><p>Similar weakness on the reverse in the 12-1 area (same area as the obverse weakness.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Other possibility, but less likely.</p><p>The working die was not hubbed fully (again an alignment problem.)</p><p>Third possibility, the planchet was not uniform in thickness.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><u>Bottom Line</u>:</p><p>The unevenness will knock the grade down a bit, but I still think it&#039;s an AU (-50 or -53).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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