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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 1806222, member: 15309&quot;]I think that your dealer may be correct.&nbsp; The coin is an AU coin which is a prime candidate for whizzing.&nbsp; The purpose of whizzing a coin is to simulate mint luster and pass an AU coin off as a mint state coin.&nbsp; The problem with whizzing is that it is much easier to detect in hand than in photographs.&nbsp; And you have given a scan which tends to mute luster.</p><p><br /></p><p>The appearance of the obverse, even at first glance just seems off.&nbsp; The devices are heavily bag marked while the fields are very clean.&nbsp; That is very strange.&nbsp; My guess is that if the coin is whizzed, they only whizzed the fields.&nbsp; When looking at the scan, the right obverse field provides the best evidence of the whizzing.&nbsp; If you look at the letters of TRVST, there is a small area above and between the letters RV that they missed and still show the original surfaces of the coin.&nbsp; When you compare that area with the appearance of the surrounding area that has been whizzed, the altered surface becomes much more evident.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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