It's a nice coin, but, at least in these images, it looks like it may have been treated by an oil such as "Blue Ribbon" or "Care", or maybe just...
I'm on 63 also, but a higher grade would not surprise me.
VF-30.
VF. Either cleaned, or the image makes the coin brighter than it actually is.
XF. If it were my coin, I might take a very light application of acetone with a swab. Very gently. It might improve, maybe not, but you would...
These are tough due to strike issues. I'm voting AU-55.
Should go VG, but I'm wondering if it was cleaned at one point. Looks a little bright.
That's a tale of two pictures. In the first picture, the coin's obverse is a solid XF. In the second, darker, picture, it's a VF, maybe a 30 on...
Very light wear visible on the knee and the shield. I would have put it at AU-58.
I'm amazed the owner even submitted it.
63 PL.
Those black spots are small corrosion spots. They can be caused by something like flecks of dandruff sitting on the coin for a couple decades....
62. 1857s often come weak, but this one is Really soft.
64 PL. DMPL is certainly possible.
I'm at AU-50. If more luster showed through the toning, it would be higher.
EF 45, details for that cut.. Too bad.
Like Kanga said. When I did mail-order, the old fashioned way, I would send my price lists using stamps that I bought at 70% of face, from stamp...
Nice coin. I see it as an AU-55.
Best was a shop in Pasadena, CA back in the 80s. Nice guys, and a great bid board. I picked up a nice VF 3-legger for the price of a common date...
I got kicked out of a store for pointing out an altered-date 1914-D to the owner. An obvious fake...the mint mark was all wrong. There were 5 or...
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