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Message:: [QUOTE="KBBPLL, post: 26342695, member: 104064"]I see enough pickup points to confirm the correct hub types. On the obverse, the ribbon touches the N, the inner ear is weak, the leaf is distant from S, and the hair almost touches the O. These conform to the 1892-1901 obverse type. The date has to be 189 (can't be 188), the tops of 2 and 3 dates are both rounded on these, so that leaves 5 or 7. The top of 7 is "fancy" on them and the upper left of the OP digit seems intact enough, square corner and flat top. [ATTACH=full]1681604[/ATTACH] The reverse also has enough to confirm the 1892-1899 hub type. The strong left-most leaf vein curves into a lobe on the overlapping leaf, and not straight into the notch between lobes like the 1900-1916 reverse types. There's also enough corn kernel detail to ID the type.  [ATTACH=full]1681605[/ATTACH] There seems to be enough left to sort of pick out the designer initial and where the 1 lines up with it, and the tip of the 5 in relation to the bust. That plus the position and obvious rotation of the mint mark indicates a good match with this die pair: [ATTACH=full]1681606[/ATTACH] Of course, this could be a sandwiched fake, and all the damage is from them pounding the two coin halves together. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I can't believe how much I get paid for this.[/QUOTE]