Looks to be about the same condition as my 1870, which was sold to me as F in the way back time (I paid $3.75 around 1973...). It's hard to tell what your reverse looks like, but grading emphasizes the obverse in most cases. Try taking images more straight on and then crop them on your phone. That's pretty easy on an iPhone.
Many of these can be weakly struck resulting in hair detail that looks like a lot of wear. The vertical lines in the III suffer from weak striking as well. The denticles are a good indicator of heavier wear. YMMV / JMHO. Z
The 1881 Nickel Three Cent Piece was sort of a "last gasp" for this denomination. The mintage was 1,077,000 which was well over the amount for the all of the other dates in this era. After the mintages were much lower until the coin was discontinued in 1889. Here are two examples, first in Mint State and then a Proof.
Try T as king your photos from directly above the coin. Taking them on an angle really makes it difficult to see the features of the coin. Thank you.
Despite the mintages shrinking significantly after 1881, the mint continued to strike miniscule mintages of circulating coins until 1889 when 18,125 coins were minted.
Yes, I don't know how to take pics of small coins like this. People are saying this is a F/VF coin but I think it is more like VF maybe I will get better at taking pics as I practice.
Try zooming in to about 3x and hold the phone farther away. Put the coin on a window sill in natural light (but not direct sunlight). Zoom in on your pic afterwards and see if it's in focus or not before posting - what you see is what we see. All it takes is a little practice, and film is cheap these days.
Take with your cell phone from about 6” away. Then crop the photo on your camera. Then attach it to your thread. Only trial and cf error will help you.
I have a number of these. You can see in photo 8 the 1888 obverse die clash which was frequent with this series (either side.)
