Engraver's Mess-Up On A Scott #146?

There appears to be an Engraver's scratch seen coming from the edge of the shield, traveling diagonally up a few lines. The vertical line seen at the left edge of the scratch is incomplete under it, and the line next to that, under also, has an irregular dark "patch". 'U" is solid at the top. Has anyone seen this before?

It is normal.

Can you cite another example? My customer's going bonkers trying to find another...

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Take a look at any of the photos.

I agree with this statement. Here is another banknote of the same issue, you can see the

There is an Engravers scratch over the fat part of the 'U' 1/3 of the way up from it, at the inner edge of the shield, heading towards the center of the scroll, with a "repair" below it on my example

I think Lincoln is referring to the scratch circled below. I didn't see this on any Siegel examples.

Thanks for pointing that out. I would have never seen the "scratch"

the immediate vertical line under that is incomplete, and the line next to it has an irregular, darker "patch"

I found no such scratch on mine but side-by-side there are many differences on mine I've chalked up to color shade differences and clarity.

In the images below one has a small scratch? just above the T and extends into the border as well as a curved line just above the small vertical lines above and to the right of the T.




Here, there are shading differences in the label below the TWO.


And here differences between the vertical shading lines under the far right of the label.