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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Steve Shupe, post: 8123993, member: 114551&quot;]It looks to me to possibly be some debris on the coin and that caused the toning difference around it. Looking at it with a 10x magnifier on an oblique angle might help to establish if it sits proud of the surface of the coin or is the metal of the coin. It is possible that it is a carbon spot. Hard to tell with the pictures. The large different toning spot on the reverse shield and above the eagle wing and on the leg and knee on the obverse, as well as at her right hand finger suggest to me to be that this spot is caused from the past handling of the coin with something getting on it and not from an alloy concern with the metal of the coin. It is still a nice, lightly circulated coin and may have contributed to the AU55 grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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