And why the shortened reverse legend?
If you look closely at the lower
reverse you will see that the the
reverse is multiply struck accompanied by
reverse die slippage during the strike. The latter has occurred in the vertical direction (6h to 12h) relative to the
flan leaving a multiple impression of the feet and garment hem line. In this process the lower
part of the
legend has been partially obliterated on the final strike as the blank component of the lower right
field of the die over rode the lowermost letters and lower letters in the
legend on the die over struck the impression from those higher on the die, resulting in the
legend mash-up.
Clearly
NGC's assessment of
Strike 5/5 is a
bit overstated in the context of the
reverse!
Nevertheless, a beautiful coin.