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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 3197404, member: 8959&quot;]Independent of whether the coin is double struck or not, the biggest issue are the innumerable surfaces marks. Early American Copper collectors rank the appearance of a coin as &#039;Choice&#039;, &#039;Average&#039;, or &#039;Scudzy&#039;. This coin is not exactly scudzy, but it is close. At best it is Average minus, in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mark on the cheek does not help, so that the general appearance, at least from the picture, is rather poor.</p><p>On the plus side, it is not corroded, pitted or grainy as so many are. So that is a good thing. Another positive is the fact it is a die state A (no die breaks/cuds on either side. These is the scarcest of the 3 die states for Sheldon-266).</p><p><br /></p><p>Concerning the toning: is it darkly toned, or does it have nice chocolate brown color? The first picture makes it appear rather dark. Not a plus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Taking all of this together, and judging solely from the pictures, the net grade would be considerably lower than the details grade. In my opinion, from a VF20/VF30 or so down to VG10, give or take.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think I would prefer a nice VG10 example to the coin above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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