Best Of

I kept thinking about it until they sold out. $500 was the cost of a coin I was thinking of buying. Couldn’t pull the trigger on a gamble

Looks like acid reduction where some type of mesh was placed over the coin then the acid to create this effect. Just a guess formed from the look and your given weight, regardless just damaged.

Environmentally damaged surfaces – not an error, or struck on an unplanted zinc planchet

Corrosion – the coin might have been buried in dirt for awhile

I love AU55s. Often there is a big price jump to the 58 due to registry collectors. Here are a few of mine (all green beaned):

And just for fun:

I would call this an uncentered broad strike also – very common for that date-, 05-D’S, 07-D’s
and a few other years from Denver, especially.

It was also my understanding that the trime was intended to redeem the Spanish coinage that came to the mint. Many of the Spanish coins were badly worn and underweight. The trime was the first U.S. which was very frankly billed as a “token coin.” The government made no bones about it. The trime did not contain 3 cents worth of silver.

Redeeming Spanish coins in trimes made the transaction less attractive.

I suppose these two require an asterisk.