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This coin highlights that the criteria for grading milled coins are not sufficient (or appropriate) for "grading" hammered coins. One can assume that milled coins generally have decent round full weight flans and much less weakness or flat areas. Then one can concentrate on assessing the wear as it is the dominant factor in grading milled. Lustre + hairlines, etc are other complementary factors. But for hammered, the wear is not the single dominant factor and is often not even the most important factor. The grading done by TPG on hammered coins often seem to ignore flat areas (can be much more important than wear) and shape of flan. Hence, I find grading numbers rather meaningless for hammered.

It looks more like a spot of corrosion to me than a proper dot ?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/277246800938?itmmeta=01JZ53DMJZX52DNR8GA2ESWY8G&hash=item408d32742a:g:uHYAAeSwKphoZOZR Not my coin, but what appears to be a very clear example of an inverted V over A Freeman 10. Plus it has other features - a dot next to 1 for example. Can't find any reference to that as a possible error.

Just shows what ugly things most hammered coins are really sigh

One thats arrived today off eBay and much better than most. 1909 DOT.

I’ll be interested to see what this fetches, as I think it’s aesthetically awful, but is apparently NGC AU58. I bought one of Chris Comber’s Anchor Shillings, which is at least a grade less, but I prefer mine to the NGC graded piece by a golden mile!