I don't really know what happened to this note. It looks to me like that at some point the Chief's face was scraped off of the note and later someone made a reproduction of the missing design features and glued the design features back on to the note. Over time, the piece that was affixed to the note came off, but is still with the note. The note itself is absolutely genuine but if you are the successful bidder, make sure you want it because I don't want it back.