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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 2581253, member: 59677&quot;]OP: If you look at your coin, especially the obverse (less toning so it&#039;s easier to see), most of the dark areas on the highest points (the hair, cap, right arm, thighs, etc.) are where the coin has small amounts of wear that have removed the mint luster of the rest of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is, however, a beautiful coin, probably XF45 or XF47 (AU50).</p><p><br /></p><p>The weakness of the strike, especially around the New Orleans mint mark make it hard to be sure... there is a known O over inverted S variety (F-111 and F-112):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/pictorial/1891o.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/pictorial/1891o.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.seateddimevarieties.com/pictorial/1891o.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>These happened for two reasons, either the die was prepared (all were done in Philadelphia) for SF and then it wasn&#039;t needed so it was repunched for New Orleans. Or, the die sinkers were known to us a punch in an unobvious place to test if the die was properly softened... using a small S die where the bigger O was to go might have been thought to be invisible.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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