Weakly struck, which is normal for the issue, but sharper than the majority. Lustrous, with silky surfaces overlaid with a creamy golden hue. Variegated, somewhat blotchy, toning extends inward from the peripheries in shades of steel green and purple blending into champagne russet. Incipient die failure extending from the I of PLURIBUS to the U of UNUM.

Certificate number: 230879-002 (NGC 5 holder). A surprisingly scarce issue. Of more the more than five thousand times examples that have been graded by NGC, sixty-nine were comparable, and only two (both MS 66) were finer; PCGS from a larger grading pool notes only six finer (all MS 65+). (02-18)