Your opinions for a grade for this 1943 P Walking Liberty Half?

Picked this up from the local coin shop for $14. Stood right out in their junk WL Half tray...I was wondering if you guys could help me out with your opinions on a grade? I can definitely see wear on the eagle feathers of the reverse and on the obverse...but I'm thinking AU58. There are a couple nasty hits - but it has full luster.




Admittedly, the color of each photo is warm, but (as I mentioned in previous posts) I'm basically shooting from the hip here (home on summer break.) Also, I'm doing my best with a handheld macro lens...not the easiest of tasks...

 

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AU58 looks right to me. Nice buy.

 

I had nothing to do today of any importance, so I did my usual (walk in to the coin shop, sort through boxes of coins including the junk silver trays, pick out anything that's misplaced or worth more than junk) and found an 1853 half dime in the junk foreign silver box - so he was pretty happy I stopped by. Ended up getting this for $14 and a handful of foreign silver for free (I didn't know it, but he was thinking that my sorting counted as "work." I'd love for that to be "work" more permanently someday...lol.)

The foreign silver I got was the following:

1890H Canada quarter (Fair/Poor but with a legible date)
1949 Taiwan 5 Chaio (XF)
1932 Japan 50 Sen (XF)
Egypt hexagonal 2 Piastres (Date not legible, G)
1834 Germany (Hesse) 6 Kreuzer (VF)
1888 Japan 10 Sen (F)

It probably helped that I was being my usual polite and patient self...while some guy was being a complete jerk at the counter next to me. Wanted to buy 4 or 5 Jefferson Nickels, but the first thing out of his mouth was, "Get the graysheet. I only pay graysheet. I'm not getting ripped off by retail prices on the better coins."

The book value of his coins was $27. This guy was arguing to get the price down to $15...but demanding it instead of being nice. Golden Rule, my friends. I hope they charged him full retail for everything. If I owned that coin shop I'd start raising the price every time he shouted a demand at me...

 

The fields are very clean and the details show to be a very strong strike. This is most likely a BU coins so id say around ms60 possibly a low ms61