pretty 1850 $20 in Vienna museum
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looks proofy... 
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I think you misspelled "wipey"
Pretty, but it looks wiped.
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.
a lot of coins in the museum got the same wipe - is that $20 nothing special, just wiped?
I peruse Euro auctions frequently and buy from time to time. It seems like many European collectors are less bothered by cleaning. Or at least, there is a very high percentage of cleaned coins offered and they seem to sell for reasonably strong prices.
Some thing stinks here 🤔
Looks like a real UNC that is semi PL, die cracks on rev beguile proof status but that is what a real UNC looks like that didn’t spend much time in a bag and have its textures cleaved off. Like many museum relics it has been improperly cleaned while sitting for almost 200 years. Shame, nice coin
11.5$ Southern Dollars, The little “Big Easy” set
It has a different date position than the only currently known proof $20, in a Paris museum.
However, pre-1855 proofs are known to have been created "on demand" by polishing existing business strike dies, with proofs from multiple different dies known in many years.
Proof-like 1850 $20s do exist. @1northcoin .
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1073215/comparing-the-proof-1850-20-double-eagle-in-a-paris-museum-to-my-specimen-from-the-original-dies
Even with the different date position aside, the subject coin doesn't look like a Proof.
Mark Feld* of Heritage Auctions*Unless otherwise noted, my posts here represent my personal opinions.