Acid before, Acid after ?? 1878-S short nock

[UNCLE BINGO]

So my buddies family owns a coin store and he asks me today about a coin stuck in "research later" bin. I look at it, and tell him it looks like acid put on parts of the eagle , PMD , through the loupe . long story short he tells me to take it and take pictures and find out here on VW .. I have no idea , because this thing is brutal , but I might add coin is still pretty lustrous in hand. I mean its got to be PMD from some mad scientist otherwise this reverse die would have shortly melted after if this thing came out like this ?????? I figured this would be educational if nothing else . Any comments are appreciated and welcome . Thanks

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[UNCLE BINGO]

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[UNCLE BINGO]

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[keilg1]

I'm seeing more road rash than acid. I have multiple ones that look like that - nothing to me but good old abuse with some other object that won (or perhaps not, but at least made its mark).

[UNCLE BINGO]

Thanks Doc .it looked like PMD to me but I was not sure. The side of the breast looks like someone shot a turkey with a shotgun

[RogerB]

How was this determined to be the result of "acid treatment" of a die?

[iwillbenice]

Scuff Job.

[UNCLE BINGO]

How was this determined to be the result of "acid treatment" of a die?

No I had thought based on the year someone had attempted to mimic one of the acid treated dies , Everything I looked at under the scope appears to be post mint damage .. The coin appears to have chunks of metal missing either by accident or a vain attempt to deceive... It could be just circumstance I don't know . I took it back to my buddy today and told him it appears to just be post mint damage ...

[UNCLE BINGO]

Scuff Job.

Maybe,,, looks like molten eagle Guts in a loupe His Coin was pretty beat up under magnification . Had it not had so much other damage I may have pursued this further ...