Warm faded red dominates both sides. The obverse exhibits light steel on the high points while the reverse is more olive brown on the reliefs. Satiny surfaces with pleasing mint luster. One small mark near star 11 seems to be a natural flake and as made. There are a few other identifiers and they are trivial.Struck from the dies in their later states, this falls within Grellmans State-b, as evidenced by the flowlined fields. These have caused distortion through the leftmost stars and the letters of UNITED in particular. The dentils are all visible though they are faded in sharpness as are the other peripheral details. Traces of the erroneously punched date digits in the dentils below 18 are ghostly, mostly having simply affected the wear pattern of the die in that area.While this coin is not quite within the Condition Census, it is likewise not too far away, a lovely example with nice technical quality and overall aesthetic appeal. The large date is diagnostic for the N-1 variety, so all PCGS records for this type apply to this die combination.
