The toning splotches may be from the coin spending some storage time in a old leather purse or pouch. I have a coin my aunt saved this way and it's much uglier, the coin in the pic isn't all that bad IHMO.
Looks like one of the New Orleans Hoard pieces found during an excavation. I like it. It hasn't been cleaned. MOO TD
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it is alive!!
but somehow i think pcgs did not slab it like it is.
but who knows.
-David
Brian
MOO
TD
Is there a spread on that coin?? It's quite possibly Unc.?? Not very high grade but still uncirculated (61-62).
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