You think the hair above the ear is wear? Could be. I was thinking softness. I hate grading from photos and not in hand.
Hard to tell if it is a weak strike or light wear. Since the softness is in a few places, despite the fact that the hair details are sharp, I am going to go AU 58.
Normally, that date is pretty well struck, so I think a TPG would recognize that it is very light circulation wear, so it is in an AU 58 slab.
It's too bad that the obverse doesn't look more like the reverse. It would be a 66 or better. I'm in the 63 camp. ~ Chris
If it went in an AU-58 holder, it would not stay there for long unless an "end user" collector bought it at a premium. If it really is rubbed, it will be an MS-62 eventually. In case you have not looked lately, AU-58 has been "degraded." It's what AU-55 used to be.
Yeah, I'm going to say MS63. It would be 64 if those scratches weren't so deep and numerous. It does look very soft and resemblant of an AU coin but I think that is just the strike. It also has too much luster to be AU.
I don't think that luster alone is enough to make a coin MS; after all, AU-58 coins are "sliders" that could probably have graded MS-62/63 were it not for a slight rub here or there.
For many years, it has not only been enough to make an MS coin; it's been enough to lift an MS-64 to MS-65 or 66. Sometimes you don't even need the luster. It can be rubbed, and still it's MS. PCGS called this an MS-60.