The deep olive obverse flashes highlights of light brown around devices and peripheries, while the reverse essentially inverts that color scheme, mostly light brown and gold with heavy olive overtones. The obverse luster is a bit subtle, while the reverse is lightly reflective. Both sides are well detailed, with just a scattering of minor marks. The reverse is a bit busier than the obverse and shows a tiny speck above the left upright of the M in AMERICA. The apparent digs near the base of RT in LIBERTY are clash marks, designating this as Manley 2.0. Breen chose this coin, then in the Bill Weber Collection, as his plate coin for Die State III. This piece was also used to illustrate Roger Cohens second edition, which notes how rare this variety is above Very Fine.In the Missouri Cabinet catalog, this coin was called tied for second finest known. The Showers coin, traded to Bill Weber to acquire this upgrade, is currently certified as MS-62 BN (PCGS) and resides in a well known collection.
