A strong XF, or Almost UNC, "thanks" to the wear on the reverse. I still can't imagine how this managed to survive 150 years of existance with some red leftover. Sad that the copper parasite is eating the surfaces And no, this time I didn't spend a bomb on this one

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If you noticed, the crown or rather the rest of the text is slightly slanted from each other... I don't know if this is very common though... I'm again going to use the vodka factor to explain this...

Finding old copper with some red remaining is always special, so I share your pleasure with the coin.

Here's one I picked up recently that you might like. The monogram die was in rough shape, but it has most of the original luster still showing under the toning.

I rarely get coins that are that XF+, forget red.

The best I have are the two overstriked coins that I have:


http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6348/1788pic3vl.jpg
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6494/1793pic5rz.jpg