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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2752545, member: 19250&quot;]Well first of all with a mintage&nbsp; of 268,000 business&nbsp; strikes&nbsp; and a 1000 proof strikes.</p><p>The 1860 business&nbsp; strikes&nbsp; working&nbsp; dies are unknown . Die varieties&nbsp; none verified. There is one known as a counterfeit&nbsp; specimen&nbsp; which this isn&#039;t . </p><p>Now when it&nbsp; come to the surfaces&nbsp; at first I thought&nbsp; cleaned. But now looking&nbsp; at&nbsp; the coin and reading&nbsp; up on the year I don&#039;t&nbsp; think so. I see some nice clashes&nbsp; the one in the date almost makes one to believe&nbsp; it&#039;s&nbsp; an repunched&nbsp; date. Especially&nbsp; the 1 and 8 as there&#039;s&nbsp; what looks to be a repunched&nbsp; digits .&nbsp; . </p><p>Now with both the obv.and rev. Dies unknown&nbsp; I&#039;m&nbsp; leaning&nbsp; towards&nbsp; a pair of dies reworked&nbsp; or polished the would account&nbsp; for all the lines seen on the surface . This date is scarce in circulated&nbsp; grades,rare in ms grades up to 65.....however very rare above 65 . The 1860 strikes range from weak to full strikes. The luster&nbsp; for this date for this date is normally&nbsp; above average&nbsp; and is also noted for some satiny&nbsp; to frosty luster. </p><p>From what I&#039;ve&nbsp; found I can see this date minted from a set of dies reworked . I find it funny that it&#039;s&nbsp; either&nbsp; my eyes or the clashes&nbsp; but&nbsp; again the date looks repunched&nbsp; and again none noted in the reference&nbsp; for this date. Now looking at the stars&nbsp; placements&nbsp; are 100% correct&nbsp; but no notations&nbsp; of re cut stars. Again to my eyes I&#039;m&nbsp; seeing&nbsp; recut stars and a reworked die. Since there are no known die marriage of this date I believe&nbsp; that&nbsp; the lines in question&nbsp; are from polishing&nbsp; of the dies. And also they were heavily&nbsp; clashed.</p><p>When I&nbsp; was looking&nbsp; at this early&nbsp; this morning&nbsp; I had it as a 62 and leaning&nbsp; towards&nbsp; details ..... but now still in the lower mid 60&#039;s grade range and not cleaned.</p><p>I do find&nbsp; it&nbsp; interesting&nbsp; that&nbsp; no dies pairs can be matched, maybe so due to the brink of the civil war. </p><p>That also could account&nbsp; for reworked&nbsp; dies.</p><p>1855 was a lower&nbsp; mintage but the years 56,57.58. did have significant&nbsp; mintages, over 1 to 1.5 millions&nbsp; minted. Then the 59&nbsp; mintage&#039;s began to be cut back under 1/2 million . </p><p>With mintage&#039;s being reduced,pending&nbsp; war, To me it makes sense&nbsp; that the dies were recycled&nbsp; and reworked. Thus making well struck&nbsp; coins polishing&nbsp; lines transfer&nbsp; to the specimen giving&nbsp; the appearance&nbsp; of being cleaned.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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