Environmental toning on the obverse looks even, the reverse looks as though someone attempted to clean it. Otherwise, nice coin.
If they're raised, indeed true, but I suspect otherwise......larger and expandable photogs could be most helpful in the determination.
They look raised to me, and if they were scratches/hairlines, they would be over top of the devices and not just in the fields.
I’m sorry. I didn’t mean that it had an issue. I meant series issue as in specific date and mint mark. It is a 1917 S type two. Although the S type one from 1917 gets more notoriety, The type two has a lot lower population numbers. It’s a very difficult Coin to find in higher grade.
My best guess is that the untoned portion had some kind of glue or lacquer on it. Or it was in a some kind of holder that had the untoned section protected to whatever the rest of the coin was exposed to.
While it certainly looks like a nice higher grade example from a details viewpoint, I do not care for the toning.
