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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael Scarn, post: 3211783, member: 94715&quot;]I may be off base, as I am also no expert but I like this series and spend as much free time as I can spare looking at these (disclaimer: mostly photos and mostly grades 65-67). That said, it looks to me like this coin exhibits wear and not just strike weakness. Look at the breaks in the toning along the hair above the face, cheekbone, right breast, etc. Even more odd to me is the inner shield design. The top and bottom of the inner shield are almost entirely flat but the vertical lines in the middle are very well struck. Weak strikes, in my observation, usually don&#039;t have that strong of vertical lines with so little detail in the other parts of the inner shield design (this pattern of &quot;weakness&quot; also looks like several of the AU coins I have seen).</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone else suspect this is an AU that (was maybe dipped, retoned, and then) slipped past the graders or am I alone on this one? I know market grading sometimes means AU coins get low MS grades, but I thought sliders usually top out at 62/63 (?). That said, I do like the color.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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