1907 $20 High Relief, Flat Rim -- Filed Rims -- PCGS Genuine. AU Details....

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1907 High Relief Twenty, AU Details
Flat Rim

1907 $20 High Relief, Flat Rim -- Filed Rims -- PCGS Genuine. AU Details. The high rims on the High Relief twenties were intended to protect the interior design elements from excessive abrasions in the fields of commerce. However, they also provided a wide target for the "ungodly" (as Walter Breen once wrote) to file just a bit of gold from each side with minimal loss in value. The cumulative effect over the course of handling numerous gold coins in a day's time would have been a nice golden bonus for the person doing the filing. This piece shows slight friction over the high points of the devices as well as in the fields, and there are numerous small contact marks scattered across both obverse and reverse, none of which are individually noticeable or distracting.

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