What is your Estimated Grade for this Indian Head Penny?

In my opinion, it looks like a VF with full LIBERTY and most of the headband intact. If it were cleaned, I don't know why there would be so much dirt around and in the devices. It appears bright because of the light reflecting directly off of it. I suspect it is a proper, nice chocolate brown in hand. Impossible to know without better photos or seeing it in hand.

 

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It's hard to clean in those spots. That stuff might be on for good, I don't know. But the surface was rubbed hard on that coin.

 

In my opinion, it's impossible to know without better photos or seeing it in hand.

 

F15

 

XF40, with obverse rim damage at 5:00.

 

VF, definitely cleaned.

 

Hopefully these pictures help.

 

Can you crop out everything but the coin?
It's way easier for us to see the details.

 

Do you see how the fields are lifeless yet clean as a whistle? That's how they look when they're hard-rubbed, with the junk remaining behind in the crevases.