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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Spark1951, post: 18887181, member: 90692&quot;]It looks to be MD, struck with a deteriorated die with circulation wear as an extra added detraction.&nbsp; Very common to have a little bit of all three.</p><p><br /></p><p>Usually the flat and shelf-like MD ends up being on one side or one direction, depending on the direction of the shift or wobble of the die during strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>The die deterioration manifests itself with incomplete or weak lettering, smearing, “orange peel” flow lines and the like and edge wear on both sides of design devices.&nbsp; Dies wear out differently, sometimes during early onset of deterioration you will see only the left or right side of a letter or numeral exhibit edge wear.</p><p>…imo…Spark[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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