Dark chocolate brown supports beautifully blended highlights of bluish steel and reddish violet evenly distributed over both sides. Robust mint luster creates strong cartwheels and adds considerably to the visual appeal. One very small intermittent scratch passes between R and I of AMERICA and into the wreath, but this is not likely to be seen without magnification. A couple of light shallow spots at the back of the neck are as made.This is the later of two die states described by Grellman, his State-b, with the fields flowlined, dentils softly defined and rims dished. The reverse exhibits numerous small lumps which seem to have either been in the die from the outset or formed early on, as all observed examples have them.Well struck with good detail throughout, this coin is nearly Condition Census for the variety.
