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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CircCam, post: 24555228, member: 85675&quot;]Thank you all for the guesses and comments.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I picked this up at a regional show recently.&nbsp; I went with the intent to find a $10 Indian if possible, raw or certified but all the examples I viewed (about 30) didn’t have the character I was looking for or were covered in distracting marks. </p><p><br /></p><p>I expanded my search to all gold US type and after scouring the floor, this one came home with me along with some raw pickups for my 7070 “2.0” project.</p><p><br /></p><p>This does seem to be an unusually tricky series to grade but even as a non-expert, this one stood up to all the 64 $2.50s I saw; and I viewed lots of them.&nbsp; In terms of the assigned grade, I first noticed the eagle’s wing on the reverse which looks a lot like rub at a glance.&nbsp; I tilted the coin and all the feathers in that area are still defined.&nbsp; My guess was that area was up against whatever material toned the rest of the coin as the silvery-purple color is the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a closeup of the tilt so you all can see what I am seeing:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554729[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS called it MS62 thirty years ago (good catch [USER=25416]@dwhiz[/USER]) :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1554730[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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